Exclude a widget from a GridLayout
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT; import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridData; import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridLayout; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Event; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Listener; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; /* * Exclude a widget from a GridLayout * * For a list of all SWT example snippets see * http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/dev.html#snippets */ public class Snippet175 { public static void main(String[] args) { Display display = new Display(); final Shell shell = new Shell(display); shell.setLayout(new GridLayout(3, false)); Button b = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH); b.setText("Button 0"); final Button bHidden = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH); bHidden.setText("Button 1"); GridData data = new GridData(); data.exclude = true; data.horizontalSpan = 2; data.horizontalAlignment = SWT.FILL; bHidden.setLayoutData(data); b = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH); b.setText("Button 2"); b = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH); b.setText("Button 3"); b = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH); b.setText("Button 4"); b = new Button(shell, SWT.CHECK); b.setText("hide"); b.setSelection(true); b.addListener(SWT.Selection, new Listener() { public void handleEvent(Event e) { Button b = (Button) e.widget; GridData data = (GridData) bHidden.getLayoutData(); data.exclude = b.getSelection(); bHidden.setVisible(!data.exclude); shell.layout(false); } }); shell.setSize(400, 400); shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); } display.dispose(); } }