[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: TableViewer, empty table and cell select

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Neyman schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> I am using a TableViewer example provided in the Articles. 
> (http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Table-viewer/table_viewer.html).
>
> Is there any way to initialize TableViewer on an empty Table? Currently, 
> doing so causes an AssertionFailedException in the 
> StucturedViewerException, because an array of elements returned by my 
> IStructuredContentProvider is null (the table is empty!)

Please provide code snippet we can run without modification to reproduce 
because this should not be a problem.

> However, removing all elements from a table later does not cause any 
> trouble for TableViewer. So my current hack is to insert one dummy 
> element into the Table, do tableViewer.setInput() and remove the element 
> afterwards. Is there a more elegant way?
>
> My second question: the example implementation in the article lets you 
> select a row by clicking on the first cell in the row only. After that I 
> can edit any cell in the selected row. How can I enable arbitrary cell 
> selection and immediate activation of that cell's editor?

You need to pass SWT.FULL_SELECTION.

Tom

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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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