[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Displaying tabular data in a view

[Rob Hafernik <rhafernik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also remember that Help is just HTML files with some XML files 
directing traffic.  If you don't mind this table of information coming 
up as part of the Help, then you could stash it there at a fraction of 
the effort you're going to here.

~rob

On 2007-04-15 16:13:36 -0500, Matt Hegarty <mash_909@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> Hi Mike
>
> Thanks for the response.  I have forged ahead and used the Table 
> widget, and with a better understanding of the API it's usable along 
> the lines you suggest.
>
> I guess what I was driving at is that I thought the Table widget was 
> overkill for what I was trying to do - I just wanted a simple table for 
> data display purposes.  The only other way I could think of doing it 
> was to generate custom HTML and populate an HTML table with my data, 
> and then render it with the Browser widget.  This would achieve my goal 
> and potentially make the view look better, however it seems a bit hacky.
>
> For now I'll stick with my Table implementation.
>
> Matt
>
> Mike Haller wrote:
> > Could could use the Properties view.
> >
> > However, i don't understand your problem with SWT Table widget. You can 
> > set it read-only, hide the table headers and make the TableColumns not 
> > sizable. Doesn't this suite your requirements?