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)

Snippet002TreeViewer

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

Snippet003TableLabelProvider

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

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

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

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.

Snippet007FullSelection

Demonstrates how you can use a use inline editing in tables with multiple columns which requires to use SWT.FULL_SELECTION but hiding the selection from the user.

Snippet008RevealElement

Demonstrates how you can scroll a TableViewer to the specific model element using TableViewer#reveal(Object)

Snippet009CellEditors

Demonstrates minimal example when trying to add inline editing to tables to get familiar with the various classes needed (3.2 API)