SWT: A Developer's Notebook

Deselecting Text

If the user has entered text in the text field, or has selected an item causing it to be entered in the text field, he may need to remove that text or de-select the item.

How do I do that?

Deselecting an item can be done programmatically by:

c.deselectAll( );

In the case of an SWT.DROP_DOWN-style combo, you may also need to call setText( ) to remove any text from the text portion of the combo:

c.setText("");

This is the brute force approach, but it works well since Combo objects are single-selection.