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Eclipse 3.0.2 Build Id: 200503110845 Steps To Reproduce: 1. Try expanding rightmost column in a table (ex: problems view, tasks or properties views) from right to left. 2. The column located to the right of the column being resized, will be hidden. 3. This happens on all table columns created and in the Eclipse properties, tasks and problems view columns. User can continue doing this with remaining columns in the table, and eventually the table will display no columns. This is a usability problem, since user might think that the columns have been deleted when in fact they are hidden.
To clarify, you're saying to make the last column wider, then the second-last column wider, then the third-last column wider, etc., and eventually most of the columns will be "hidden" off to the right of the viewport, right?
(In reply to comment #1) > To clarify, you're saying to make the last column wider, then the second-last > column wider, then the third-last column wider, etc., and eventually most of > the columns will be "hidden" off to the right of the viewport, right? Yes, making the last column wider (from right to left), and following that pattern with each column to the right of the one being resized. Eventually all columns will be hidden off to the right of the view.
This is the native Table behaviour, columns to the right can be horizontally scrolled to. Does your table not show a horizontal scrollbar? What alternate behaviour should happen?
I work with Miriam - and what we would like to see is the ability to set the table to not resize the columns to 0 length...but to require a minimum length (some settable number). An alternative would be to provide an indicator to the user to be able to restore the table column. The problem is that there is no indicator to the user letting them know what happened, and how to undo it.
So you want the opposite of what I thought then. Providing a "I'm hidden" visual indicator is not likely because the native Table does not provide this, so changing report title to request an api for setting a minimum column width.
Please do something. Another bug number 330161 has reported a similar problem. Customer is PMR 87735,031,724 Intergo co.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
