net.sourceforge.java.feednread.frontend.dialog
Class DialogUtils

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.java.feednread.frontend.dialog.DialogUtils

public class DialogUtils

extends Object

Contains Dialog specific utility methods.

Author:

Sebastian Machhausen

Constructor Summary

DialogUtils()

Method Summary

static AutoCloseConfirmationDialog

createAutoCloseConfirmDialog(Shell parentShell, String dialogTitle, String headerText, String headerSubText, String message, Image dialogImage, Image headerImage, int secondsToClose) Creates an AutoCloseConfirmationDialog instance which displays an information message along with a confirmation Button (OK) which closes itself after the time span as specified by secondsToClose if the end-user does not close the dialog before this time span elapses.

static MessageDialog

createQuestionDialog(Shell parentShell, String title, String message, Image titleImage) Creates a question dialog.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DialogUtils

public DialogUtils()

Method Detail

createQuestionDialog

public static MessageDialog createQuestionDialog(Shell parentShell,
                                                 String title,
                                                 String message,
                                                 Image titleImage)

Creates a question dialog. Note that the dialog will have no visual representation (no widgets) until it is told to open. The open method will return either IDialogConstants.YES_ID if the question dialog was confirmed with YES, IDialogConstants.NO_ID if the dialog was left with NO or -1 if the dialog was dismissed without pressing a button(ESC, etc.). Note that the open method blocks.

Parameters:

parentShell - the parent shell

title - the dialog title, or null if none

message - the dialog message

titleImage - the dialog title image, or null if none

Returns:

the created MessageDialog

createAutoCloseConfirmDialog

public static AutoCloseConfirmationDialog createAutoCloseConfirmDialog(Shell parentShell,
                                                                       String dialogTitle,
                                                                       String headerText,
                                                                       String headerSubText,
                                                                       String message,
                                                                       Image dialogImage,
                                                                       Image headerImage,
                                                                       int secondsToClose)

Creates an AutoCloseConfirmationDialog instance which displays an information message along with a confirmation Button (OK) which closes itself after the time span as specified by secondsToClose if the end-user does not close the dialog before this time span elapses. The time begins to run once the open methods is called on the returned AutoCloseConfirmationDialog instance.

Parameters:

parentShell - the parent Shell or null if this AutoCloseConfirmationDialog should be created as top level Shell

dialogTitle - the dialog title

headerText - the header text

headerSubText - the accompanying text of the header

message - the message

dialogImage - the Image for the dialog

headerImage - the Image to display in the header

secondsToClose - the time in seconds after which this AutoCloseConfirmationDialog closes automatically