Bug 38662 - [Viewers] Accessibility: unable to resize a table column using keyboard only
Summary: [Viewers] Accessibility: unable to resize a table column using keyboard only
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.4 M7   Edit
Assignee: Boris Bokowski CLA
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Keywords: accessibility, helpwanted
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Blocks: 13895 86268
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Reported: 2003-06-09 14:50 EDT by Kit Lo CLA
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:59 EDT (History)
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Description Kit Lo CLA 2003-06-09 14:50:38 EDT 
If a table column is too narrow to show all the contents, currently there is no 
way to resize the column without using the mouse.
Comment 1 Debbie Wilson CLA 2003-06-09 16:01:24 EDT 
I believe this is a common Windows problem but am assigning to SWT for comment.
Comment 2 Steve Northover CLA 2003-06-19 17:15:42 EDT 
Kit, how is a table column resized in Explorer?
Comment 3 Kit Lo CLA 2003-06-19 18:33:27 EDT 
To answer your question, in Windows Explorer we can select View->Choose 
Columns... pulldown menu, pick the column and specify the wide for the column.
Comment 4 Steve Northover CLA 2003-06-23 09:33:49 EDT 
Thanks.  It seems there is no standard Windows key sequence to do this.  I 
think Eclipse will have to do something like Explorer.  Moving to UI.
Comment 5 Nick Edgar CLA 2003-06-25 12:34:29 EDT 
Should provide a reusable dialog like this in JFace for R3.0.
Comment 6 Michael Van Meekeren CLA 2004-05-25 14:12:58 EDT 
deferring
Comment 7 Nick Edgar CLA 2006-03-15 11:47:41 EST 
Reassigning bugs in component areas that are changing ownership.
Comment 8 Boris Bokowski CLA 2008-04-23 17:21:34 EDT 
I have implemented a new dialog "ConfigureColumnsDialog". This does not automatically keyboard-enable all tables - clients have to add an action to their view menu, for example. Because we are past the API freeze for 3.4, this class is not API, but we can make it API in 3.5. Until then, I would recommend that clients use the code of this internal class as a suggestion for how their columns can be made keyboard-resizable. (They can also copy the code...)

Released to HEAD.
Comment 9 Kit Lo CLA 2008-04-30 09:50:20 EDT 
Thanks! Closing.
Comment 10 Boris Bokowski CLA 2008-04-30 13:16:51 EDT 
(In reply to comment #9)
> Thanks! Closing.

At the end of a milestone, we go through all bugs in resolved/fixed state and verify the fix. To do that, we run a query for resolved/fixed, marking bugs as verified as we go.

Please don't change the bug status or resolution, it messes with our verification process. We do appreciate "thank you" comments though. ;-)
Comment 11 Boris Bokowski CLA 2008-04-30 13:17:19 EDT 
Marking as resolved/fixed to get this into the verification pipeline again
Comment 12 Boris Bokowski CLA 2008-05-01 15:59:53 EDT 
Verified on Windows XP using I20080501-0100.