[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Problem with setting the foreground of a sel

[saintveni@xxxxxx (Nevena)]

Hi, all
I am a three weeks' newbee in SWT, and I have a problem to which I found 
no answer.

In my application I display a Table (certificateTable), populated with the 
properties of some objects (Certificates). I want to color those items of 
the table, that display certificates out of date, in red.
All works well, as long as the out-of-date-certificate is not the selected 
item. If the out-of-date-certificate is selected, then the setting of the 
foreground color is overridden by the default foreground color(white). Or 
am I missing something...? Does anyone have a solution to the problem? Any 
help would be appreciated!

I post a code snippet:

   public void fillCertificateTable() {
	certificateTable.removeAll();

	WelderProcessor wp = ui.getWelderProcessor();
	CertificateProcessor cp = wp.getCertificateProcessor();
	int maxWC = cp.getNumEntities();
       
       // populate the data
	for (int j = 0; j < maxWC; j++) {
	    Certificate certificate = cp.getEntityByIndex(j);
	    Welder welder = wp.getEntityByNum(certificate.getWelder()
		    .getNumber());
	    TableItem itemCert = new TableItem(certificateTable, SWT.NONE);
	    String date = "";
	    Date valiDt = certificate.getValidDt();
	    if (valiDt != null) {
		SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
		date = sdf.format(valiDt);
	    }

	    itemCert
		    .setText(new String[] { welder.getNumber(),
			    welder.getLastName() + " " + welder.getFirstName(),
			    certificate.getNorm(), certificate.getNumber(),
			    certificate.getRemarks(),
			    "" + certificate.getDiameter(),
			    "" + certificate.getThickness(),
			    certificate.getDiameterDimensions(),
			    certificate.getThicknessDimensions(),
			    certificate.getPosition(),
			    certificate.getProcess(), date });

            // check the date of the certificate, 
            // and if it is before the current date, 
            // color the table item in red
	    if (valiDt != null && valiDt.before(new Date())) {
		Color red = display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_RED);
		itemCert.setForeground(red);
	    }

	}
           // get the table item to be selected
           int selIndex = cp.getEntityIdByNum(c.getNumber());
           // set the selection
           certificateTable.setSelection(selIndex);

Thanks for your help in advance!