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Couldn't find an existing request for this feature. This capability has been asked about a few times on the newsgroup. Search newsgroup for TextAreaCellEditor. It seems like it would not be too difficult to support this.
TextCellEditor was enhanced to accept style bits. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12329 ***
Reopening since there are some issues with the support. 1. Multiline cell editor should be sized to display at least two lines of text. 2. Display of multiple line data in the table is non-optimal. Currently multiple lines of text are concatenated together as one line. This is confusing, because you think that your multiline changes weren't picked up correctly. Perhaps some kind of "more" indicator could be used (like the "..." that is used when a label doesn't fit). Maybe a down arrow to indicate more lines. Even just getting rid of the concatenation (with no "more lines" indication) would be better in my opinion.
Looks like changing the size of the cell editor to display multiple lines would also require SWT changes. Currently the TableEditor, TableTreeEditor, TreeEditor do not appear to honor a minimumHeight - though it looks like the code is setup to do this - so the change should not be major from their standpoint.
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1. There should be a way to set the minimum number of lines displayed for a multi-line value. If less than the entire value is displayed, it should scroll. 2. One of the settings should display all lines. 3. Different rows may have different heights. 4. There should be a way to disable wrap in a multi-line value. 5. There should be a way to enable Enter in a multi-line value.
This should be implemented for all platforms, not only Windows 2000
Is this moving along?
*bump* ? :-) Our product is in dire need of this -- our tables tend to have long entries, and our users are really wanting to see all of their data when viewing the table. We've currently hacked up a multi-line cell editor while they are entering data, but after that, they dont get to see it all.
This bug was sitting in the graveyard. I only noticed it recently. Is there something we can do here?
In the short term we might be able to provide a multi-line tooltip...would that be sufficient?
Although it might be interesting, it would not be sufficient for our plugin's needs. We'd like to use this cell editor in our properties view (although I have not investigated to see if the property descriptors must all share a common height, which would be problematic).
It would be helpful, of course -- anything to let the user see what they typed in without having to enter "edit mode"; but of course, I am really hoping to see some day soon a supported mechanism for multi-lined tables, both for viewing and editing.
The style bits are part of the interface, but SWT.MULTI and SWT.WRAP do not appear to have any affect on the TextCellEditor's behavior. Tool-tip shows the whole text in a single line, but it would be preferrable to have a multi-line text item appearing in the tree.
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.
