public String getText()
public void setText(String text)
If a button is an arrow button, the getText method returns an empty string and setText does not have any effect.
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.RowLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
public class ButtonBasics {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final Display display = new Display();
final Shell shell = new Shell(display, SWT.SHELL_TRIM);
shell.setLayout(new RowLayout());
Button button = new Button(shell, SWT.RIGHT);
button.setText("text on the button");
shell.open();
// Set up the event loop.
while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
// If no more entries in event queue
display.sleep();
}
}
display.dispose();
}
}