RowLayout in SWT that vertically aligns on the font baseline

Question

SWT's RowLayout is fine for the purpose, however I'd like the vertical alignment on the font baseline for all widgets containing text.

Is there maybe a ready custom Layout that does this?

Snippet204.java probably has what it takes to implement it, but I just want to ask if it has been done before. Couldn't find it, but it seems like a typical requirement.

In the screenshot's top, there's the row layout, below is a fixed layout that I manually arranged to the baseline (WindowBuilder has snapping for that).

Answer 1

RowLayout has a field called center. Just set it to true and you're good.

center specifies whether the controls in a row should be centered vertically in each cell for horizontal layouts, or centered horizontally in each cell for vertical layouts. The default value is false.

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    Display display = new Display();
    Shell shell = new Shell(display);

    RowLayout layout = new RowLayout();
    layout.center = true;

    shell.setLayout(layout);
    shell.setText("StackOverflow");

    new Label(shell, SWT.NONE).setText("Label");
    new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH).setText("Button");

    shell.pack();
    shell.open();

    while (!shell.isDisposed())
    {
        if (!display.readAndDispatch())
        {
            display.sleep();
        }
    }

    display.dispose();
}