Description Nick Edgar 2001-10-10 22:39:03 EDT

AK writes on EC:

i have a multi state cell editor (exactly like CheckBoxCellEditor - it
just has n states, not 2)

on each click the state changes. however, double clicks are ignored, 
which is not what i want.

also, there seems to be a timeout on the single click. how do i turn it
off?

to summ up, here's the behavior i'd like to have:
.you single click and the value changes imediately - like in a checkbox
table (see jre preference page)
.double click does exactly what single click does

alternatively, single click is disabled, double click does the job

how do i get that bahavior?
thanks


NOTES:

NE (7/5/01 11:01:26 AM)
	EC reply:

Unfortunately the TableViewer (and TableTreeViewer) hardcodes the delay and
the double-click (non-)behaviour,  in the TableViewerImpl class.  See
TableViewerImpl.handleMouseDown(MouseEvent) and
handleMouseDoubleClick(MouseEvent).
These are called by the listener in TableViewer.hookControl().

You might be able to fake it out by hooking selection or mouse events on the
Table widget, and calling TableViewer.editElement(Object element, int
column).  You'll need to determine which column was selected by checking
bounds of the various columns in the
selected item.  See TableViewerImpl.activateCellEditor(MouseEvent) for how
it normally does this.
You can get the element from the TableItem using getData() (although this is
an internal implementation detail).
However, if you do hook these events, the TableViewerImpl will still be
doing its own handling, so you may have some strange interactions with the
default behaviour.

The only other alternative currently is to not set the cell editors in the
viewer, but handle editing yourself (create your own TableEditor).
You could still use the cell editors, but you would have control over when
they are activated, rather than TableViewerImpl.
This is a bit more work, but would give you the most control.