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Can the Column Width in a TableViewer to be smaller than the Column Text? [message #459380]

Mon, 08 August 2005 14:21

J. Shanonn

Messages: 12
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi There,
I'm using a Table Viewer and would like the user to be able to resize the
widths of the columns (be dragging) to be less than the width of the
Column Header Text? I've found that I can programatically set the width
to 0, which effectively hides the column, but I would like the width to
default to a size less than the size of the column text - hiding the
column doesn't help me.

I should mention that right now I'm setting the layout of the table to a
GridData with Parameters of FILL_HORIZONTAL and FILL_VERTICAL. This is
what's causing my problem - I want the table columns to fill the available
horizontal and vertical space, but still allow the user to have some
control over the size of the columns. Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks
JS

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Re: Can the Column Width in a TableViewer to be smaller than the Column Text? [message #459381 is a reply to message #459380]

Mon, 08 August 2005 14:29

Yves Harms

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Registered: July 2009

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Try to put the table into a Composite with FillLayout.
This way you shouldn'tneed to temper the internal layout settings of the
table.

J Shannon wrote:
> Hi There,
> I'm using a Table Viewer and would like the user to be able to resize
> the widths of the columns (be dragging) to be less than the width of the
> Column Header Text? I've found that I can programatically set the width
> to 0, which effectively hides the column, but I would like the width to
> default to a size less than the size of the column text - hiding the
> column doesn't help me.
> I should mention that right now I'm setting the layout of the table to a
> GridData with Parameters of FILL_HORIZONTAL and FILL_VERTICAL. This is
> what's causing my problem - I want the table columns to fill the
> available horizontal and vertical space, but still allow the user to
> have some control over the size of the columns. Can anyone offer any
> advice?
>
> Thanks JS
>

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Re: Can the Column Width in a TableViewer to be smaller than the Column Text? [message #459385 is a reply to message #459381]

Mon, 08 August 2005 15:35

J. Shanonn

Messages: 12
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi Yves,
Thanks for responding so quickly to my post...I tried your suggestion and
I still cannot resize the columns to be smaller than their labels. Do you
see anything in the code below that would be causing my problem?

FillLayout fillLayout = new FillLayout();

fillLayout.type = SWT.HORIZONTAL;

Composite composite = new Composite(parent, SWT.NONE);

composite.setLayout(fillLayout);

TableViewer viewer = new TableViewer(composite);

Jason

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Re: Can the Column Width in a TableViewer to be smaller than the Column Text? [message #459402 is a reply to message #459385]

Mon, 08 August 2005 19:13

Billy Biggs

Messages: 94
Registered: July 2009

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J Shannon wrote:
> Thanks for responding so quickly to my post...I tried your suggestion
> and I still cannot resize the columns to be smaller than their labels.
> Do you see anything in the code below that would be causing my problem?

Are you on Linux?

I think the default behaviour for GtkTreeView is that you can't
resize a column smaller than the size of the column's label.

-Billy

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Re: Can the Column Width in a TableViewer to be smaller than the Column Text? [message #459405 is a reply to message #459402]

Mon, 08 August 2005 19:49

J. Shanonn

Messages: 12
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Yes, I am on Linux.

Billy Biggs wrote:

> J Shannon wrote:
>> Thanks for responding so quickly to my post...I tried your suggestion
>> and I still cannot resize the columns to be smaller than their labels.
>> Do you see anything in the code below that would be causing my problem?

> Are you on Linux?

> I think the default behaviour for GtkTreeView is that you can't
> resize a column smaller than the size of the column's label.

> -Billy

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Re: Can the Column Width in a TableViewer to be smaller than the Column Text? [message #459554 is a reply to message #459405]

Wed, 10 August 2005 14:45

Billy Biggs

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Registered: July 2009

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J Shannon wrote:
> Yes, I am on Linux.

You should add yourself as a CC on this bug. I'm not sure if it's a
bug in SWT or not yet.

http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=106381

-Billy

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