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icon5.gif  Manipulate strength and color of table/tree viewer grid? [message #493667] Tue, 27 October 2009 14:13 Go to next message
Dagmar Buggle is currently offline Dagmar BuggleFriend
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Hi,
I'm creating an application whose User Interface consists mainly of a JFace Tree Viewer in table mode. Now I'm looking after a method to improve the visibility of the table grid. The default grid lines are in a very light grey and rather thin and can be rarely seen when showed by beamer projection.
Is there a smart way to manipulate these properties? Any example snippets out there?
Any help would be heavily appreciated!
Greetings
dagmar
Re: Manipulate strength and color of table/tree viewer grid? [message #493941 is a reply to message #493667] Wed, 28 October 2009 14:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
T. Wilhelm is currently offline T. WilhelmFriend
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Hi Dagmar,

here is an example how to do it.... be careful, this example draws only lines if there is an element.

viewer.addListener(SWT.PaintItem, this);

@Override
public void handleEvent( Event event) {
    switch (event.type) {
    case SWT.PaintItem:
        paintItemBorder(event);
        break;
    }

protected void paintItemBorder( Event event) {
        if (getLinesVisible()) {
            return;
        }

        // Draw line at bottom and right side
        int x1 = event.x;
        int y1 = event.y;

        int x2 = x1 + getColumnWidth(event.index) - 1;
        int y2 = y1 + getItemHeight() - 1;

        GC gc = event.gc;
            gc.setForeground(Display.getDefault().getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_RED));
        gc.drawLine(x1, y2, x2, y2); //Change line width by manipulating these values
        gc.drawLine(x2, y1, x2, y2);
    }

[Updated on: Wed, 28 October 2009 15:00]

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icon14.gif  Re: Manipulate strength and color of table/tree viewer grid? [message #494031 is a reply to message #493941] Wed, 28 October 2009 20:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dagmar Buggle is currently offline Dagmar BuggleFriend
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Thx a lot, I can't try it right now, but it looks good.
yours
dagmar
Re: Manipulate strength and color of table/tree viewer grid? [message #494122 is a reply to message #493941] Thu, 29 October 2009 09:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dagmar Buggle is currently offline Dagmar BuggleFriend
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Hi,
I just tried to use your snippet but I could not find a class which provides a method named getColumnWidth - Table/TreeViewer don't provide a method like this. Calling the method directly produces an error.
Do I have to extract a column and get the width from the column directly? Or do I have to import anything from which I can call that method?

Thx a lot,
Dagmar
icon10.gif  Re: Manipulate strength and color of table/tree viewer grid? [message #494136 is a reply to message #494122] Thu, 29 October 2009 10:50 Go to previous message
T. Wilhelm is currently offline T. WilhelmFriend
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Hey Dagmar,

my fault, sorry. The SWT Tree and Table class provide these methods.

so call myTreeViewer.getTree().getItemHeight();

Sorry for missing that.
Greetz
Thomas
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