[ews.eclipse.technology.rap] Re: Table with multiline columns

[Cheney Chen <cheney_chen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Austin and Markus,

I also need a table with multiline columns, but I can't implement it.Can 
you give me some hints or some exactly simple code?

Thanks,
Cheney

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:44:50 +0000, Markus Wolf wrote:

> Hello Austin,
> 
> I helped myself with the problem by implementing a ContentProvider and
> LabelProvider which splits up the long text into multiple table rows.
> The input is wrapped by the ContentProvider and then send as model-
> elements to the table viewer. This aproach works quite well but it is
> not possible to have TableEditors with this. That the only drawback we
> have.
> 
> But thanks for your input. :)
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
>> There is a way to have some semblance of multi-line table rows in a
>> TableViewer if you don't mind a bit of hacking.
>> 
>> I have a small experimental implementation that will interpret '\n'
>> characters in the text that is returned from the LabelProvider.  It is
>> limited in ability, and it is unconventional, but if you need the
>> multi-line tables that bad you may find it helpful.
>> 
>> Caveats:
>> 1. You must manually set the row height on the TableViewer. 2. The row
>> height will be consistent for all rows. 3. The text will be left
>> justified.
>> 4. Overflow is cut off.
>> 
>> 
>> If you are still interested I can post it.