Re: [platform-ui-dev] Opening up the PropertySheetView "API"

[Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John

You may be trying to hard to use the property sheet view - the TableViewer 
supports all of what you are after now. That way you can do it all using 
just JFace.

Tod




"John Ruud" <jruud@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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We need to display custom text, fonts, colors, and images in *both* 
columns 
of the PropertySheetViewer. As the PSV currently doesn't seem to support 
this, we have instead modified the class as follows:

private void updateEntry(IPropertySheetEntry entry, TreeItem item) {
        // ensure that backpointer is correct
        item.setData(entry);

        // update the name and value columns
        item.setText(0, entry.getDisplayName());
        item.setText(1, entry.getValueAsString());
        Image image = entry.getImage();
        if (item.getImage(1) != image)
            item.setImage(1, image);

        if (entry instanceof IItemDecorator) // modified by us
            ((IItemDecorator) entry).decorate(entry, item); // modified by 

us

        // update the "+" icon
        updatePlus(entry, item);
    }

The problem with our approach is that we need to take over the whole 
org.eclipse.ui.views plugin, as opposed to simply sublclassing a couple of
classes (due to the "privateness" of the PS classes), and this is causing
problems for example when trying to support multiple versions of Eclipse.

What would be a good/preferred way of adding custom rendering support to 
the

property sheet view (I suspect there may be some resistance to simply 
making
the PSV class and some of its methods non-private)?

Thanks, John


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