[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: How to filter a TreeViewer to not display th

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/11/2009 2:21 PM, Kyle J Nolan wrote:
> My structure has the following (where each level is a different class
> type):
>
> DocumentRoot
> +- MyExplorer
>   +-Tree1
>    ---item1
>    ---item2
>   +-Tree2
>    ---item3
>    ---item4
>
> I am trying to filter my TreeViewer to only display:
> Tree1
>    ---item1
>    ---item2
> Tree2
>    ---item3
>    ---item4
>
> I can't seem to figure out how to do this with the ViewerFilter--if I
> try to filter a parent class, I lose the children.
> I would also be happy with a solution to just print the tree starting
> at a certain level (if that's simpler)

I don't think ViewFilter can do what you want. Do you already have a 
custom content provider for the TreeViewer? I'd think that is the place 
to do this kind of thing.

Eric