[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: TableViewer without FULL_SELECTION

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One more note. If you need this feature in JFace-TableViewer I'd happy 
to work with you on it (although M6 is tomorrow and so the earliest so 
you need to wait for 3.5 (=June 2009)). It's quite hard to get this 
working and I didn't had time to work on it.

Tom

Tom Schindl schrieb:
> Fully compatible and although Grid is itself qualifying as ALPHA it is 
> not as far as I can say. The GridViewer was added because we opened the 
> JFace-API in 3.3 ;-)
>
> Tom
>
> David Huebel schrieb:
> > Tom Schindl wrote:
> >
> > > Selecting a table-cell is not supported by SWT-Table you'll need to use
> > > Nebula-Grid which provides this feature. If you *don't* need to support
> > > multi-selections you could stay with SWT-Table and use JFace features to
> > > make this work (but we currently don't support multi-selection see
> > > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=206692!).
> > >
> > > Tom
> >
> > Ouch!  Thanks for the prompt reply.  I do need multi-selection.  I'm 
> > leery
> > of investing a bunch of work to try out alpha software, but GridViewer
> > extends AbstractTableViewer, which makes it at least somewhat
> > API-compatible with TableViewer.  Does Grid/GridViewer support all of the
> > current functionality of Table/TableViewer?  Would I need to rewrite my
> > content providers, label providers, or sort listeners?
> > - David


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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