[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: LabelProvider and icon

[eyecanseeyou <eyecanseeyou@xxxxxxx>]

Thank you for the details.
And do you know why the width of the image in my 5th column is resized 
to the same width of the image in my 4th column ?


Emil Crumhorn wrote:
> This is a known Windows "problem". It's actually working as intended (I 
> think, although I don't see this behavior in most windows apps), but I agree 
> it's nasty.
>
> The trick is to create column before all your other ones, but set it to 
> width 0 and to not be resizable (nor moveable if you do that stuff), so 
> basically it's invisible. Then just put all your data in the the other 
> columns (at index 1+) and images will show up correctly without spacing out 
> any other columns.
>
> I should mention however, that this trick does not work on Mac. So if you 
> are doing stuff for both platforms, do a mac/windows check before you create 
> that, and remember to offset your counts by 1 depending on the platform. I 
> don't know how Linux does it.
>
> Emil