A shell is always displayed in one of the following states: Normal, Maximized, Minimized.
To minimize a shell, you can use the following method:
public void setMinimized(boolean minimized)
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
public class ShellStates {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final Display display = new Display();
final Shell shell = new Shell(display,SWT.SHELL_TRIM);
shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
shell.setMinimized(true);
shell.open();
// Set up the event loop.
while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
// If no more entries in event queue
display.sleep();
}
}
display.dispose();
}
}
To check whether a shell is minimized or not, use:
public boolean getMinimized()
The counterparts methods for the maximized state are as follows:
public void setMaximized(boolean maximized)
public boolean getMaximized()