Client Area is reported wrong when adding the first tab to a Tabfolder

[laeubi]

Today I debugged some issues with tab folder and found the following quite annoying behavior (linux/gtk):

If one has an empty tab folder and adds the first tab to it, the client are is reported as 1x1 pixel right after that call. This leads to the tab appear to be "empty" or distorted depending on the widget it shows.

Query for the size in an async execution or when adding another tab always reports the correct size.

Here is a snippet to reproduce:

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package org.eclipse.swt.snippets;

/*
 * TabFolder example snippet: create a tab folder (six pages)
 *
 * For a list of all SWT example snippets see
 * http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
 */
import org.eclipse.swt.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;

public class Snippet76a {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Display display = new Display();
        final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
        shell.setText("Snippet 76");
        shell.setLayout(new GridLayout());
        Button add = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
        add.setText("Add a tab");
        final TabFolder tabFolder = new TabFolder(shell, SWT.BORDER);
        tabFolder.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.FILL_BOTH));

        add.addSelectionListener(new SelectionListener() {

            int i = 1;

            @Override
            public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
                System.out.println("The Client Area before adding a tab is: " + tabFolder.getClientArea());
                TabItem tabItem = new TabItem(tabFolder, SWT.NONE);
                int j = i++;
                tabItem.setText("Tab " + j);
                Label label = new Label(tabFolder, SWT.NONE);
                label.setText("Text inside the tab " + j);
                tabItem.setControl(label);
                System.out.println("The Client Area after ADDING a tab is: " + tabFolder.getClientArea());
                display.asyncExec(() -> {
                    System.out.println("The Client Area after ASYNC is: " + tabFolder.getClientArea());
                });
            }

            @Override
            public void widgetDefaultSelected(SelectionEvent e) {

            }
        });
        shell.setSize(400, 500);
        shell.open();
        while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
            if (!display.readAndDispatch())
                display.sleep();
        }
        display.dispose();
    }
}

Here is how it looks like:

https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/assets/1331477/5b90baa8-8c27-4b93-b289-0dff84655c85

As one can see the label is only visible after resizing the tab.

[deepika-u]

Thanks for the mention of Linux. Can you also please add "linux" tag to the issue.

Just to understand on the issue, i have tried it on windows 11 and i see that client area for first tab is being shown fine.

[laeubi]

Thanks for the mention of Linux. Can you also please add "linux" tag to the issue. Just to understand on the issue, i have tried it on windows 11 and i see that client area for first tab is being shown fine.

Thanks for verification, then it seem to only happen on linux :-\ I have added the linux/gtk label now.