[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Skipping Columns, Highlite selected Cell

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All you need is available and working (beside 5 which could not get
introduced in 3.4 but it will make into 3.5).

Look at
http://wiki.eclipse.org/JFaceSnippets#Snippet026TreeViewerTabEditing it
is for tree but works equal on Table.

Tom

Thomas Eichstädt-Engelen schrieb:
> Hi SWT-Experts,
> 
> i am developing an excel-like editor. I am using a tree (TreeViewer) to
> visualize data. There are many columns in each row. What i'd like to
> accomplish is the following:
> 
> 1. Tabbing with the Tab (which does not work on my MacOS machine)
> 2. having the selected row highlited
> 3. having the selected cell framed
> 4. skip to only 6 (out of 20) columns in each row, because only those
> six columns are editable.
> 5. scroll vertically when tabbing to a column which is not visible so far.
> 
> 2 and 3 works partially. Thanks to Tom's FocusBorderHighliteSnippet
> (http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.jface.snippets/Eclipse%20JFace%20Snippets/org/eclipse/jface/snippets/viewers/FocusBorderCellHighlighter.java?revision=1.3&view=markup)
> i got 2 working. 3 works as well except for columns whom i set a
> different color trough LabelProvider
> (ObservableMapLabelProvider.getBackground()). In that case the border
> disappears when selecting such a column.
> 
> To accomplish 5 i used some code which i found in that snippet
> (http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.jface.snippets/Eclipse%20JFace%20Snippets/org/eclipse/jface/snippets/viewers/Snippet058CellNavigationIn34.java?revision=1.1&view=markup)
> thanks to Tom again. That works perfectly fine for activating an editor.
> But i did not manage to register a listener (which one) to react on
> "normal" cursor-events and make the apropriate column visible.
> 
> Could you give me some pointers?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Thomas E.-E.
> 
> 


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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