[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Where to find checkbox images for TableV

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Well JFace' approach is a little bit different and leaves it to the user
how he/she wants to present the data. JFace won't make assumptions based
on data types but it shouldn't be too hard for you to provide a generic
ITableLabelProvider doing this for you.

In 3.3 things changed tremendously by providing you ViewerColumns which
means you'll create a BooleanViewerColumn and reuse it for all columns
representing columns with boolean values in any table you want.

A thing JFace need to provide is that you can use arbitary controls to
represent data instead instead of only using Strings and Images a
problem might be how to make it work with the CellEditor idea used a the
moment and resource usage in big Tables/Trees.

If you want to explore new features in 3.3 you can try it out easily by
using http://tom-eclipse-dev.blogspot.com/.

I for myself must say that at first I also thought JFace's approach is
not as comfortable than the one Swing uses but in since then I reverted
my opinion and think JFace gives me so much flexiblity and the
possiblity to write my own reusable components.

Tom

Patrick Godeau schrieb:
> Tom Schindl a écrit :
>> TableViewer doesn't provide the possiblity to place arbitary controls in
>> the table but it might be an interesting idea to provide something like
>> this in 3.3.
> 
> It would be a good idea, to catch up with Swing's advance. The Swing API
> much more powerful than SWT/JFace. For example, a JTable manages
> checkbox editors automatically for boolean types.
>