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JFaceSnippets

JFace-Snippets are small easy understandable programming example how to use JFace API. You can find them in CVS JFace code snippets:

Viewers

Snippet001TableViewer

Demonstrates a simply TableViewer with one column. It holds all important classes used for all Table-like JFace-Viewers (LabelProvider,IStructuredContentProvider)

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Snippet002TreeViewer

Demonstrates a simply TreeViewer with one column. It describes all important classes used for all Tree-like JFace-Viewers (LabelProvider,ITreeContentProvider)

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Snippet003TableLabelProvider

Demonstrates tables with more than one column and the usage of ITableLabelProvider

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Snippet004HideSelection

Demonstrates how the selection can be hidden when the user click in a tablerow/column which doesn't hold any information. The standard behaviour of SWT-Table is to leave the selection on the last column. This snippet removes the selection if the user clicks in an area not selectable

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Snippet005TreeCustomMenu

Demonstrates how to create a different context menu depending on which item in the tree is currently selected this can also be used with a table of course

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Snippet006TableMultiLineCells

Demonstrates first use case for the new OwnerDraw-Support added to JFace in 3.3 (available at SWT-Level since 3.2). This uses the new Viewers API in this special case the OwnerDrawLabelProvider to make items with more than one line of text.

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