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Get which TreeItem has focus in a Tree ? [message #491549]

Wed, 14 October 2009 19:45

Eclipse User

Hi,
is there any way to figure out which individual TreeItem has focus?
If I call display.getFocusControl(), I get the Tree back, even though the dotted outline is on a leaf.

Thanks,
Gary

Re: Get which TreeItem has focus in a Tree ? [message #491590 is a reply to message #491549]

Thu, 15 October 2009 03:52

Eclipse User

Gary Miguel wrote:
> Hi,
> is there any way to figure out which individual TreeItem has focus?
> If I call display.getFocusControl(), I get the Tree back, even though
> the dotted outline is on a leaf.

TreeItems are Widgets and no Controls, therefore they don't have a focus
concept.

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

Re: Get which TreeItem has focus in a Tree ? [message #491721 is a reply to message #491590]

Thu, 15 October 2009 10:59

Eclipse User

A Table/TreeItem can show a focus rectangle on some platforms, but there's
no API for getting the item that has this (such API would be similar to
Table/Tree.getSelection()).

There is a sneaky way to get it on win32 and motif though, as shown in the
snippet below. This snippet should work on gtk as well but doesn't due to
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=292413 . OS X does not have
the concept of a focused Table/Tree item.

public static void main(String[] args) {
final Display display = new Display();
final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
shell.setBounds(10,10,200,200);
shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
final Tree tree = new Tree(shell, SWT.MULTI);
for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
new TreeItem(tree, SWT.NONE).setText("item " + i);
}
tree.addListener(SWT.PaintItem, new Listener() {
public void handleEvent(Event event) {
if ((event.detail & SWT.FOCUSED) != 0) {
System.out.println("item has focus: " +
((TreeItem)event.item).getText());
}
}
});
shell.open();
while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep();
}
display.dispose();
}

Grant

"Daniel Kr

Re: Get which TreeItem has focus in a Tree ? [message #491751 is a reply to message #491721]

Thu, 15 October 2009 12:31

Eclipse User

Thank you very much. I am writing for win32, though ideally we'd want something that works on 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7. Any idea if this will break?

With this trick you showed me, I should be able to make a wrapper class for Tree that keeps track of which TreeItem has focus.

Re: Get which TreeItem has focus in a Tree ? [message #491814 is a reply to message #491549]

Thu, 15 October 2009 19:30

Eclipse User

Hmm, it seems that on Windows XP, there's no focused TreeItem until you use the keyboard to navigate through the Tree. If I open my app and just use the mouse to click, shift-click, control-click, etc, there's no dotted line, and the listener never gets called.

I suppose I can see why it's not a supported SWT feature...

Re: Get which TreeItem has focus in a Tree ? [message #491914 is a reply to message #491814]

Fri, 16 October 2009 10:09

Eclipse User

Yes, that's native focus rectangle behaviour. Encouraging apps to depend on
it in general, especially across platforms, probably wouldn't be doing them
any favours.

The snippet in my other reply should work equally well on 64-bit Windows and
Windows 7, assuming that native Tables and Trees in Windows 7 show focus
rectangles.

Grant

"Gary Miguel" <gmiguel@informatica.com> wrote in message
news:hb8bba$hc3$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Hmm, it seems that on Windows XP, there's no focused TreeItem until you
use the keyboard to navigate through the Tree. If I open my app and just use
the mouse to click, shift-click, control-click, etc, there's no dotted line,
and the listener never gets called.
>
> I suppose I can see why it's not a supported SWT feature...

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