Bug 263198 - Add new support to the CheckboxTreeViewer so that it can hide or grey out individual checkboxes
Summary: Add new support to the CheckboxTreeViewer so that it can hide or grey out ind...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 203943
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2009-02-01 23:03 EST by Richard Gregory CLA
Modified: 2009-02-02 09:23 EST (History)
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Description Richard Gregory CLA 2009-02-01 23:03:15 EST 
Build ID: M20080911-1700

Steps To Reproduce:
When checkboxes are relevant to only some elements in a tree viewer, there is no way to hide or grey out elements that aren't meant to be checked. You can grey out an entire element in a CheckboxTreeViewer, but there should be a way to grey out just the checkbox (or hide it). Currently we have to not let the user check a box and display a message so they know that it can't be checked. A better usability story would be if the checkbox didn't look checkable to the user in the first place.

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Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2009-02-02 00:05:36 EST 
Sounds kind of like bug 203943 and bug 259092 to me...
Comment 2 Richard Gregory CLA 2009-02-02 09:23:51 EST 
Thanks for the info. 259092 is exactly our problem. It describes a workaround, which is what we are currently doing, but as the defect mentions, the workaround is not the best in terms of usability. That defect points to 203943 on SWT, which is the root of the problem. Therefore, I'm marking this as a duplicate of that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 203943 ***