[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Table not displaying inside a Composite

["Robert Bacs" <boby@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Try to set a layout on your shell.

Boby

"Ruben Carvalho" <carvalho_ruben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7d68fcea63ad5257ee225950590a7842$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have just started working with Tables. I've started
> with the snippets available at eclipse.org and
> everything was ok.
>
> In my application I want to put a Table inside a
> Composite and it just doesn't work. I'm using Windows
> XP and eclipse 3.0.2. Here is the code that I've
> changed from Snippet103:
>
> Thank you
>
> import org.eclipse.swt.*;
>
> public class TableTest {
>   static char content = 'a';
>
>   public static void main(String[] args) {
>     final Display display = new Display();
>     Shell shell = new Shell(display);
>     shell.setBounds(10, 10, 200, 240);
>
>     /* This is what I've added */
>     Composite c = new Composite(shell, SWT.NONE);
>
>     FillLayout f = new FillLayout();
>     c.setLayout(f);
>
>     /* Now I create the table with a composite instead
> of using a Shell */
>     Table table = new Table(c, SWT.BORDER);
>     table.setBounds(10, 10, 160, 160);
>
>     final TableItem[] items = new TableItem[4];
>     for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
>       new TableColumn(table, SWT.NONE).setWidth(40);
>     }
>     for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
>       items[i] = new TableItem(table, SWT.NONE);
>       populateItem(items[i]);
>     }
>
>     Button button = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
>     button.setBounds(10, 180, 50, 30);
>     button.setText("Change");
>     button.addListener(SWT.Selection, new Listener() {
>       public void handleEvent(Event event) {
>         for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
>           populateItem(items[i]);
>         }
>       }
>     });
>
>     shell.open();
>     while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
>       if (!display.readAndDispatch())
>         display.sleep();
>     }
>     display.dispose();
>   }
>
>   static void populateItem(TableItem item) {
>     String stringContent = String.valueOf(content);
>     item.setText(new String[] { stringContent,
> stringContent, stringContent, stringContent });
>     content++;
>     if (content > 'z')
>       content = 'a';
>   }
> }
>
> Rúben Carvalho
>