Bug 4843 - EC DCR: Add keyboard support for multi-select to Tree (1GKMHS5)
Summary: EC DCR: Add keyboard support for multi-select to Tree (1GKMHS5)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Veronika Irvine CLA
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Reported: 2001-10-11 14:24 EDT by Carolyn MacLeod CLA
Modified: 2003-03-05 16:23 EST (History)
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Description Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2001-10-11 14:24:01 EDT 
From Eclipse Corner:  SWT Tree: Multi-select using SHIFT+ARROW

With one item selected, the user should be able to hold down SHIFT+ up/down
ARROW and have the items above or below selected also. The Tree doesn't seem
to support this. Any ideas on how to add this support?

	CM & SN answered:
The native tree in Windows does not support multiple selection.
Under pressure from our customers we added support for multi-select to the SWT Tree, on top of the native single-select tree.
This was extremely difficult and tricky to get right. (If you are curious, go look at the code). We did not add any keyboard support at that time.

I will open a PR to have this support added in the future.

NOTES:
	CM (9/25/2001 3:02:57 PM)
		Note that this will become important for accessibility.
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-29 16:42:52 EST 
PRODUCT VERSION:
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Comment 2 Steve Northover CLA 2003-03-05 16:23:44 EST 
This has been fixed for a while.