[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Indention when using images in TreeViewer

[Matthew Hall <matthall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the standard operating system behavior.  If you want to go to 
the trouble, you could override it using owner draw:

http://help.eclipse.org/stable/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/jface/viewers/OwnerDrawLabelProvider.html

Matthew

Ricky Patel wrote:
> I have a TreeViewer of which the children elements will have images but 
> the parent elements will not (they receive null as an image). I've 
> noticed that when the children elements are not shown, the tree looks 
> like the following:
>
> > Parent1
> > Parent2
>
> But then when I expand the tree the parent item is given space for an 
> icon though it does not have one so the tree looks like this:
>
> >     Parent 1
>      (icon) Child 1
>      (icon) Child 2
> >     Parent 2
>      (icon) Child 1
>      (icon) Child 2
>
> Is there anyway to not have this extra indention of space? Is this a 
> flaw in ILabelProvider or is it how ILabelProvider is supposed to react? 
> I assumed that the following would have happened instead...
>
> > Parent 1
>  (icon) Child 1
>  (icon) Child 2
> > Parent 2
>  (icon) Child 1
>  (icon) Child 2