[news.eclipse.technology.albireo] Re: Advice on getting started?

[Gordon Hirsch <gordon.hirsch@xxxxxxx>]

Cklewis wrote:
> I went off of your snippet you posted (the one with the JTables) and 
> also your Eclipse article and i'm apparently doing something wrong still.

From the code you posted, it looks like you are trying to embed the 
JTable in a SashForm. I took the standard SWT snippet for SashForm and 
modified it to make one of its children a JTable, with the help of the 
source code from my article. Here's the whole thing. I hope it helps.

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation

*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.swt.snippets;

/*
 * SashForm example snippet: create a sash form with three children
 *
 * For a list of all SWT example snippets see
 * http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
 */
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;

import org.eclipse.swt.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.custom.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;

import swingintegration.example.EmbeddedSwingComposite;

public class Snippet109 {

public static void main (String [] args) {
	final Display display = new Display ();
	Shell shell = new Shell(display);
	shell.setLayout (new FillLayout());

	SashForm form = new SashForm(shell,SWT.HORIZONTAL);
	form.setLayout(new FillLayout());
	
	Composite child1 = new Composite(form,SWT.NONE);
	child1.setLayout(new FillLayout());
	new Label(child1,SWT.NONE).setText("Label in pane 1");
	
	Composite child2 = new Composite(form,SWT.NONE);
	child2.setLayout(new FillLayout());
	new Button(child2,SWT.PUSH).setText("Button in pane2");

	// Composite child3 = new Composite(form,SWT.NONE);
    // child3.setLayout(new FillLayout());
    // new Label(child3,SWT.PUSH).setText("Label in pane3");

    EmbeddedSwingComposite child3 = new EmbeddedSwingComposite(form, 
SWT.NONE) {
        protected JComponent createSwingComponent() {
            /* Creating components */
            int nrows = 1000, ncolumns = 10;
            Vector rows = new Vector();
            for (int i = 0; i < nrows; i++) {
                Vector row = new Vector();
                for (int j = 0; j < ncolumns; j++) {
                    row.addElement("Item " + i + "-" + j);
                }
                rows.addElement(row);
            }
            Vector columns = new Vector();
            for (int i = 0; i < ncolumns; i++) {
                columns.addElement("Column " + i);
            }
            JTable table = new JTable(rows, columns);
            table.setAutoResizeMode(JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF);
            table.createDefaultColumnsFromModel();

            JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);

            return scrollPane;
        }
    };
    child3.populate();
	
	
	form.setWeights(new int[] {30,40,30});
	shell.open ();
	while (!shell.isDisposed ()) {
		if (!display.readAndDispatch ()) display.sleep ();
	}
	display.dispose ();
}
}