Tomsondev Blog

Many of us have faced the same problem that if you needed to use checkboxes in your TableViewer/TreeViewer they look not native because they are pictures. I had some free minutes and thought that it’s time to create a LabelProvider which is able to create platform look-and-feel images out of the box. It’s not 100% [...]

The last time I showed you the new programming model we introduced to JFace to make it feel like programming SWT. But has this been the only reason that we decided to add this new API beside the existing one (ILabelProvider, ITableLabelProvider, IColorProvider, ITableColorProvider, IFontProvider, ITableFontProvider) .Sure enough it was not the only reason. First [...]

Have you often asked yourself which items are visibile in Table/Tree. Maybe you need these informations to dispose system-resources (e.g. if you have different images in every row you can easily run out of system resources). What to do? There’s no SWT-API available to calculate this information. So we need a bunch of custom code [...]