Re: [platform-swt-dev] Table Off-End

["Steve Northover" <Steve_Northover@xxxxxxxxxx>]

History: Virtual tables were not available on all platforms.  We didn't want to force ourselves into using a fake table.  Windows virtual table had bad bugs (circa 4.71 of comctl32.dll).
Discussions need to take place in PR's otherwise they get lost.  My pal, 37998 is the place.

Michael Scharf <Michael-Scharf@xxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 06/19/2003 12:40 PM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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Steve Northover wrote:

> 
> Guys, it's one thing to hack the snotout of Windows to work for one case 
> and quite another to work the problem all the way through on every 
> platform.  

100% agreement!

Maybe before continuing the discussion, we should verify if (in principle)
all supported platforms have a kind of virtual table widget. For windows, for
example, I was pretty suprized to see that SWT puts a pretty heavy weight
expensive mechanism on top of the "virtual table widget" of windows.

I would expect in the future, that a non virtual table uses a SWT virtual
table. So, the TableItem based table would be one example how to use the virtual
tables.

> For example, what do you do about table items when in virtual 
> mode and the guy asks for them?  I imagine we'd poof up free items ... 
> or not.  What happens when he mixes virtual and non-virtual?  What 
> happens when he selects an item but this item doesn't yet exist.  What 
> does getSelection() return?  Please don't bother trying to answer these 
> questions here.

Where do you think those questions should be discussed?

> http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37998 is tracking the "I 
> hate the native table" issue.

Do you suggest to use this entry as "discussion forum"?

Michael
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