[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Tableviewer refresh scrolls to selection

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

1. There is a bug in setSelection(ISelection,boolean)
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=164796
   The patch if accepted would also introduce a method to control the
   scrolling behaviour when calling refresh.

2. For 3.2 and before you need to make the whole thing yourself
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=164797

Tom

cse schrieb:
> Apologies, yes I found the article you refer to: 
> http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=32022&group=eclipse.platform.swt#32022 
>
>
> I tried your solution of removing the selection, refreshing, then 
> reselecting the old selection. Unfortunately when calling 
> tableviewer.setSelection() to put the old selection back, it again 
> causes the table to autoscroll to that item/row.
>
> The other risk is if there are listeners on the tableviewer looking for 
> selection change events, they would receive 2 selection change events 
> which may cause unecessary updates. Of course there are workarounds for 
> this but ideally it would be nice to have the ability to turn off the 
> auto-scrolling feature if required.
>
> Is there any other way to fix this? Also Im not sure how to log a 
> feature request etc that you mentioned in the other thread. Could you 
> please provide some details?