[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Table margins always white???

["varname" <v@xxx>]

while I sympathize with you over the fact that swt / jface tables are
somewhat lacking in certain areas, most of those instances of 'lazyness' as
you describe them are actually quite logical once you realize that the swt /
jface table widget is nothing more than a wrapper around the native table
widget.

This means that on windows for instance (which i assume you are working on)
there are certain limitations you just can't blame swt for. There is the
(in)famous 'extra column' on the right (normal windows behaviour), the 'can
i have fixed column-headers?' issue (the native table-widget is _not_ an
excel table, and vice-versa), the 'first column ignores alignement styles'
(again, native issue) and the 'multi-line tablecells' issue (again, excel
table != native table).

For all of these things, on which I agree Swing has had 'for years now', it
just boils down to the native / custom drawn policy. Where Swing chooses to
do everything itself, SWT tries to use native things, and only when forced
will it (have to) use custom drawn widgets (iirc tree-widgets are not native
on macosx).

I've been reading this list for quite some time now and almost all of the
issues with tables (and trees) mostly come down to ppl expecting stuff that
'is in Swing'. In the general case, it's very enlightening to first take a
look at, for windows for instance, the MSDN on the control you want to use.
This will give you an idea of what is and is not possible.



As for your question, I have no idea.

PS: don't think I'm trying to bash you in anyway, it's just that you seem to
be stumbling on so many limitations of the table control, I thought i'd
point you at some of the 'causes'.