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This change is based on and should thus be merged after #3504

ToolBar's setImageList/setHotImageList/setDisabledImageList each carried a near-identical copy of the logic to compare the current TB_GET*IMAGELIST handle against the ImageList's handle for the current zoom, and, if different, apply it via TB_SET*IMAGELIST while toggling setDropDownItems around it to avoid a Windows layout glitch. handleDPIChange and addImage each called all three setters in turn whenever any one image list might have changed.

This change consolidates that duplicated logic into a single refreshImageLists method operating on the current field values, replacing the three getters and three setters. ToolBar's representation is still three separate ImageList fields. It prepares the ground for introducing a class that owns the three image lists as one unit.

This is not a purely behavior-preserving refactoring: refreshImageLists toggles setDropDownItems at most once per refresh batch instead of once per list, and only when the tool bar's buttons are actually being added or recreated (addImage, handleDPIChange) rather than for updateOrientation. Both the toggling and the native updates are
skipped entirely when the image lists already set on the tool bar are the current ones, which in particular avoids any native calls for tool bars without images.

Related to #3466

Note: This change is human-crafted and was only slightly revised and documented with the help of AI

This is the second of multiple incremental steps to enhance ImageList handling and consistency inside ToolBar. This is supposed to be merged for 2026-12 M1.

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Test Results (win32)

   35 files  ±0     35 suites  ±0   6m 6s ⏱️ +47s
4 871 tests ±0  4 795 ✅ ±0  76 💤 ±0  0 ❌ ±0 
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Results for commit d0fd66f. ± Comparison against base commit bb1b092.

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HeikoKlare marked this pull request as ready for review August 14, 2026 06:46
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HeikoKlare force-pushed the toolbar-imagelists-cleanup-step2 branch from 82224f9 to 675e221 Compare August 14, 2026 09:34
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HeikoKlare force-pushed the toolbar-imagelists-cleanup-step2 branch from 675e221 to 70fd7e2 Compare August 14, 2026 10:44
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Pull request overview

This PR refactors Win32 ToolBar image-list synchronization by centralizing native TB_SET*IMAGELIST updates into ToolBar.refreshImageList(s) and routing ToolItem image updates through ToolBar methods (addImage/putImage/clearImage) instead of manipulating the three ImageList instances directly. This supports the ongoing effort to make DPI-change image handling more consistent and maintainable (per the linked issue/series).

Changes:

  • Replace ToolBar’s per-list getter/setter sync methods with a consolidated refreshImageList/refreshImageLists implementation.
  • Introduce ToolBar.addImage/putImage/clearImage and update ToolItem to use them.
  • Adjust image-list refresh call sites to use the consolidated batch refresh approach.

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File Description
bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/widgets/ToolItem.java Switches image-list manipulation to ToolBar helper methods for add/put/clear operations.
bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/widgets/ToolBar.java Adds consolidated image-list refresh helpers and new internal image-list mutation APIs; updates orientation/DPI paths to use them.

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ToolItem manipulated ToolBar's three normal/hot/disabled ImageLists
directly: reading them via ToolBar's getters, creating them inline
when absent, and calling add()/put() on each of them itself. This
spread the bookkeeping for a single item's images across both
classes and made ToolItem responsible for details that are really
ToolBar's to own, such as lazily creating the image lists sized to
the first image added.

With this change, ToolBar exposes addImage/putImage/clearImage
instead, and ToolItem goes through these instead of touching
ImageList directly. ToolBar's internal representation (three
separate ImageList fields, and their existing
setImageList/setHotImageList/setDisabledImageList synchronization
methods) is otherwise unchanged.

This is a behavior-preserving refactoring: the image lists are still
created, filled and synchronized with the same values as before.

The disabledImageList != null guard in ToolItem.updateImages is
dropped rather than moved: in that branch the item already has an
image index, so all three image lists necessarily exist, as they are
only ever created together in addImage and cleared together in
destroyItem and releaseWidget.

Related to
eclipse-platform#3466
ToolBar's setImageList/setHotImageList/setDisabledImageList each
carried a near-identical copy of the logic to compare the current
TB_GET*IMAGELIST handle against the ImageList's handle for the
current zoom, and, if different, apply it via TB_SET*IMAGELIST while
toggling setDropDownItems around it to avoid a Windows layout glitch.
handleDPIChange and addImage each called all three setters in turn
whenever any one image list might have changed.

This change consolidates that duplicated logic into a single
refreshImageLists method operating on the current field values,
replacing the three getters and three setters.
ToolBar's representation is still three separate ImageList fields.
It prepares the ground for introducing a class that owns the three
image lists as one unit.

This is not a purely behavior-preserving refactoring: refreshImageLists
toggles setDropDownItems at most once per refresh batch instead of
once per list, and only when the tool bar's buttons are actually being
added or recreated (addImage, handleDPIChange) rather than for
updateOrientation. Both the toggling and the native updates are
skipped entirely when the image lists already set on the tool bar are
the current ones, which in particular avoids any native calls for tool
bars without images.

Related to
eclipse-platform#3466
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HeikoKlare force-pushed the toolbar-imagelists-cleanup-step2 branch from 637edb7 to d0fd66f Compare August 14, 2026 17:36
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