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Avoid Nattable selecting the first char typed in edit mode [message #1790706]

Thu, 14 June 2018 16:40

Santhosh Kumar

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Registered: March 2011

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When focus into a cell to edit its contents (by typing first char in normal mode), Nattable clears the old value, sets the new char typed and it selects that new char. So when user types another char, the previous char gets overwritten.

May be easier to see with the attached gif. In the example gif, I'm trying to enter 123 in first cell and 456 in second cell. As you can see, when I type 1, it inputs that but selects it. So when I type 2, 1 gets overwritten.

Any idea how to configure such that it doesn't select the first typed char so that user can start typing in a cell without missing first char?

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Re: Avoid Nattable selecting the first char typed in edit mode [message #1790714 is a reply to message #1790706]

Thu, 14 June 2018 19:05

Dirk Fauth

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Registered: July 2012

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Which version of NatTable on which platform? I do not see this behavior on Windows with the latest SNAPSHOT. The behavior is to set the selection at the end of the inserted text, which is the typed character in the described case.

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Re: Avoid Nattable selecting the first char typed in edit mode [message #1790715 is a reply to message #1790714]

Thu, 14 June 2018 20:24

Santhosh Kumar

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This is in Mac High Sierral version 10.13.4 with Nattable 1.5.

Anyways we can disable the behavior to not to select after inserted text?

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Re: Avoid Nattable selecting the first char typed in edit mode [message #1790716 is a reply to message #1790715]

Thu, 14 June 2018 20:37

Dirk Fauth

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Registered: July 2012

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As I said, there is no selection for me. The caret needs to be placed at the end of the text that is added to the text control. This is done via Text#setSelection(textLength, textLenght). I suppose a bug in SWT on Mac here. Not performing this will place the caret at the beginning which is an even more distracting behavior.

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