[news.eclipse.platform] using a hyperlink with a Table/TableViewer/TreeV

[Francis Upton <francisu@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm writing a search facility for my product.  When searching, it's 
possible for hundreds of results to be returned.  Each result is shown 
as a table row with up to 3 links in it (to various levels of the 
hierarchy representing the result).  The table is shown through a dialog 
of a few rows.

Previously this all worked fine (except without the hyperlinks) by 
having a TableViewer.  The scrolling and resizing was fast, even if 
there were thousands of results.

Now I'm trying to add the links.  I see the following options:

1) Using a plain Table with a TableEditor (which refers to a Link 
control).  This worked reasonably well, except for performance.  It's 
unusable with more than a small number of rows.  There is also this bug:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=166720

So this option won't work (unless I'm doing it wrong or there is another 
way to do it).

2) TableViewer - I don't think it's possible to have an arbitrary 
control for rendering a table cell in use with a TableViewer unless I 
subclass it.  Creating a CellEditor does no good, as this replaces the 
control only when the cell is edited.

My next step is to consider subclassing TableViewer and having it use a 
TableEditor referring to a Link, however, I'm concerned I will run into 
the same issues I have with option 1.

3) Use a TreeViewer.  The search results can be represented as a tree, 
where each node then has only one link in it.  I have not looked into 
this, but I would assume I will have to subclass TreeViewer as in option 
2 to have it render a Link.

Are there other options?  Am I missing something obvious?

TIA,

Francis