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

[Bob Foster <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> remember to offset your counts by 1 depending on the platform

Really? That is something I would expect SWT to handle.

Bob

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
>
>
> "eyecanseeyou" <eyecanseeyou@xxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:d55e8b$thn$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a Table with 5 columns.
> >
> > ______________________________________
> > | COL1 | COL2 | COL3 | COL4  |  COL5 |
> > --------------------------------------
> > | TEXT | TEXT | TEXT | IMAGE | IMAGE |
> > | TEXT | TEXT | TEXT | IMAGE | IMAGE |
> > | TEXT | TEXT | TEXT | IMAGE | IMAGE |
> > ...
> >
> > When I display an image in the 4th column for example, the text in my 1st 
> > column is shifted on the right (equals the image width). AND in the same 
> > time if I add an image in the 5th column then it is resized to the size on 
> > my image in the 4th column.
> >
> > What is wrong ?
> > Thanks.