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Changing selection color in table? [message #462606]

Fri, 14 October 2005 20:17

scb

Messages: 43
Registered: July 2009

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I've got a tableviewer with SWT.FULL_SELECTION set.

when I select a row, it's selected in blue. the problem is some rows have
yellow backgrounds already based on their data (if a certain field has a
certain value, it's yellow). if i select one of these yellow rows, it's
then shown as a blue row (selection color). the user is given no
indication that this row is a "yellow" row, since it's now selected and
blue

i'm thinking maybe i can change the selection color when these "yellow"
rows are selected, but i don't know how. what's the best way to change
the color of a selected row?

Thanks

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Re: Changing selection color in table? [message #462644 is a reply to message #462606]

Sun, 16 October 2005 13:25

Emil van Galen

Messages: 12
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

This blue selection color is standard Windows behavior, so I don't think it's wise to fiddle around with that.

However it's possible to create a Canvas similar to a Table Cursor that grabs the focus from the table. If you set the style SWT.HIDE_SELECTION to the table, this will prevent a selection from being show at all. Now you can set you own selection column but you also need to handle or redirect the mouse and keyboard handling. So that simply to much effort and simply not worth it. Sometimes it just easier to say to a client that it simply can not be done.

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