[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: TableCursors, TableViewers and multi-lin

[jbuslawski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Buslawski)]

Thanks for the reply Tom.

We might have some bandwidth to help with a solution. Our next release 
will likely be based on Eclipse 3.4 so any solution we would want to 
pursue would have to bridge back to it. We have the expertise to do this 
type of work but would like some guidance from you and your team. We are 
open to (and have done so in the past) implementing our own versions of 
classes in the Eclipse framework that are otherwise non-extensible or need 
some modification to fit our needs. I'm not promising anything at the 
moment since we have our own release schedules to manage but there is the 
possibility that we can help.

By bridging back to 3.4, I mean that if we can find the right 
abstractions, we would like to implement them in Eclipse 3.4 with the 
expectation that some simple code changes will get us to a comparable 
Eclipse 3.5 implementation when we are ready to move to it.  

Our alternative to solving this the right way is to add a preference that 
allows the user to toggle between multi-select mode and table navigation 
mode. The issue with this is that the user will have to restart his editor 
for the preference change to take effect. Then when the feature comes out 
in Eclipse 3.5 we would probably have to remove the preference. Not the 
best solution in our eyes but certainly doable.

Given all that, how would you like to proceed?