Forms FormPage Wizard

Subclasses of the Eclipse Forms FormPage class can be created using the Forms FormPage wizard. The wizard can be selected from the drop down Designer wizard menu or from the Eclipse New wizard. To use the wizard, select the project source folder and package to contain the class. Then enter the class name and hit the Finish button. For more information on using Eclipse Forms, see the Eclipse Forms Programming Guide.

The wizard generates the following code.

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.IManagedForm;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.editor.FormEditor;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.editor.FormPage;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.FormToolkit;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.ScrolledForm;

 

public class FormsFormPage extends FormPage {

    public FormsFormPage(String id, String title) {

        super(id, title);

    }

    public FormsFormPage(FormEditor editor, String id, String title) {

        super(editor, id, title);

    }

    protected void createFormContent(IManagedForm managedForm) {

        FormToolkit toolkit = managedForm.getToolkit();

        ScrolledForm form = managedForm.getForm();

        form.setText("Empty FormPage");

        Composite body = form.getBody();
        toolkit.decorateFormHeading(form.getForm());

        toolkit.paintBordersFor(body);

    }

}

When editing Eclipse Forms FormPages, a set of specialized Eclipse Forms widgets is available with their own unique widget palette. These widgets provide the "flat" look that is a signature element of the Eclipse Forms API. Standard widgets and layout managers can also be used although they won't use the flat look.