[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Can the FilteredList have columns?

[Wendell Beckwith <wbeckwith@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well mainly we are porting a Swing UI which has a table with a text 
field that filters the table entries as the user types in it.  Exactly 
what the FilteredList and FilteredTree do.  The only difference between 
the 2 is that our current UI element actually has several columns. Plus 
the FilteredList/Tree classes have UI enhancements to clear the text 
control, etc.

While we could try and concatenate the column strings into a single line 
of text to be included in the FilteredList, the info likely will not 
line up as nicely as in table columns proper.  We could also create our 
own composite with a text control and a tableviewer, but we was hoping 
to reuse and customize the FilteredList class if possible.  No need to 
suffer from NIH if we don't have to.

Wb



Eric Rizzo wrote:
> On 2/16/2009 4:00 PM, Wendell Beckwith wrote:
> > The FilteredList class seems to be what I need from a UI since, however,
> > I need several columns to be a part of the list with the associated
> > sorting by column. Is this class extensible in this way or via
> > subclassing or am I looking at creating a new Composite with the same
> > behavior?
>
> Any reason you can not use a TableViewer instead? It extends 
> StructuredViewer which supports filtering and column-based sorting. See 
> this snippet for example: 
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JFaceSnippets#Snippet040TableViewerSorting 
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Eric