[news.eclipse.technology.nebula] Re: Grid - Inline Editing

[Peter Pfeifer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much. I'll give this a try tomorrow and let you know. 
Besides that, would this be a valuable feature/enhancement for future 
JFace releases?

Peter

Tom Schindl schrieb:
> Peter Pfeifer schrieb:
> > Hello Tom.
> >
> > Thank you very much. I added your changes and now both work like a 
> > charm. But that leads me to another question :-) I don't know if I 
> > should start a new thread, but first I'll try my luck within this one.
> >
> > I want to use the grid/gridtableviewer for quick data entry. Therefore 
> > I have a special requirement. When the active cell is the really last 
> > one in the grid and the user presses the tab-key a new record/row 
> > should be added to the grid. It's more or less the same as in MS 
> > Word/OO when the user is editing the last cell of a table and pressing 
> > the tab-key automatically adds one new row.
> >
> > Is this also possible to be done with the grid/gridtableviewer?
>
> That's not an easy task but doable with some hacks. Because we are past 
> API-Freeze in JFace 3.4 it is to late to introduce such a feature at 
> JFace level and I don't think GridViewer should introduce an API itself.
>
> Having said this you can solve "quite simply" your own and staying with 
> the current API but enhancing it (See the files attached). This is only 
> one solution you could also use Reflection for example.
>
> Tom