Wrap abel within a composite

Question

I have ScrolledComposite which allows only vertical scrolling. (heighthint = 400).

Within this ScrolledComposite, I have another CompositeA (height may exceed 400 for scrolling) to store all other widgets.

I have a very long label (with SWT.WRAP enabled). But instead of wrapping, it is always showing in a single line. I want this label to wrap according to the width of its parent (CompositeA)

I forgot to add that this CompositeA is a 2 column GridLayout with makeColumnsEqualWidth = true.

Here is my code:

public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    Display display = parent.getDisplay();

    toolkit = new FormToolkit(display);
    form = toolkit.createForm(parent);
    form.setText("ABC");

    Composite body = form.getBody();

    TableWrapLayout layout = new TableWrapLayout();
    layout.numColumns = 2;
    body.setLayout(layout);

    Label header1 = toolkit.createLabel(body, "ABC: ");
    Font font = new Font(display, "Arial", 11, SWT.BOLD);
    header1.setFont(font);

    Label header2 = toolkit.createLabel(body, "XYZ",
            SWT.WRAP);
    font = new Font(display, "Arial", 11, SWT.NONE);
    header2.setFont(font);

    TableWrapData wd = new TableWrapData(TableWrapData.FILL_GRAB);      
    header2.setLayoutData(wd);

    form.getBody().setBackground(
            form.getBody().getDisplay()
                    .getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_WIDGET_BACKGROUND));

    // Scrolled composite
    ScrolledComposite sc = new ScrolledComposite(body, SWT.BORDER_SOLID
            | SWT.V_SCROLL);
    sc.setAlwaysShowScrollBars(true);
    sc.setBackground(new Color(display, 50,255,155));


    wd = new TableWrapData(TableWrapData.FILL); 
    wd.heightHint = 360;
    wd.colspan = 2;
    wd.grabHorizontal = false;
    sc.setLayoutData(wd);

    sc.setLayout(new TableWrapLayout());

    Composite innerComposite = toolkit.createComposite(sc);
    sc.setContent(innerComposite);

    innerComposite.setLayout(new TableWrapLayout());
    innerComposite.setBackground(new Color(display, 255,50,50));

    Section section = toolkit.createSection(innerComposite,
            Section.DESCRIPTION | Section.TITLE_BAR | Section.EXPANDED);
    wd = new TableWrapData(TableWrapData.FILL);
    wd.maxWidth = 600; // don't want to hardcode this value

    section.setLayoutData(wd);
    section.setText("Section");
    section.setDescription("A not so long description......................");

    // Composite for Section
    Composite sectionClient = toolkit.createComposite(section);
    layout = new TableWrapLayout();
    layout.numColumns = 2;
    layout.makeColumnsEqualWidth = true;
    sectionClient.setLayout(layout);

    toolkit.createButton(sectionClient, "Button 1", SWT.RADIO);

    Label rightDesc = toolkit
            .createLabel(
                    sectionClient,
                    "A very long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long desc that needs wrapping",
                    SWT.WRAP);
    font = new Font(display, "Arial", 10, SWT.ITALIC);
    rightDesc.setFont(font);
    wd = new TableWrapData();
    wd.rowspan = 2;
    rightDesc.setLayoutData(wd);

    Combo comboDropDown = new Combo(sectionClient, SWT.DROP_DOWN
            | SWT.BORDER);
    comboDropDown.setText("DDL");
    comboDropDown.add("1");
    comboDropDown.add("2");
    comboDropDown.add("3");

    Label lineBreak = toolkit.createSeparator(sectionClient, SWT.SEPARATOR
            | SWT.HORIZONTAL);
    wd = new TableWrapData(TableWrapData.FILL);
    wd.colspan = 2;
    lineBreak.setLayoutData(wd);

    /***********************/

    toolkit.createButton(sectionClient, "Button 2", SWT.RADIO);

    Label rightDesc2 = toolkit
            .createLabel(
                    sectionClient,
                    "A long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long desc that needs wrapping",
                    SWT.WRAP);
    font = new Font(display, "Arial", 10, SWT.ITALIC);
    rightDesc2.setFont(font);
    wd = new TableWrapData(TableWrapData.FILL);
    wd.rowspan = 3;
    rightDesc2.setLayoutData(wd);

    toolkit.createLabel(sectionClient, "Desc",
            SWT.WRAP);
    toolkit.createText(sectionClient, "hello world", SWT.NONE);

    section.setClient(sectionClient);

    innerComposite.pack();

}

If you run it, you can see a green scrolledcomposite and a red composite. I want the red composite width to fill to the width of the scrolledcomposite relatively without hardcoding maxWidth = 600.

user_80382 · Answer

SWT.WRAP is not enough if you want to have the long text label to wrap. The label won't wrap its text by default if you don't specify the widthHint in the layout. This works for me:

Label label = new Label(parent, SWT.WRAP);
label.setText("very very long text....");
GridData gd = new GridData(SWT.FILL, SWT.TOP, true, false, 1, 1);
gd.widthHint = 200;
label.setLayoutData(gd);

Wrap abel within a composite

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