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Table Column: displaying the & character [message #464409]

Wed, 23 November 2005 08:20

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: matthew1801.hotmail.com

Hi,

I am using an SWT Table, trying to display an '&' character in a table
column. I have tried the following without success:

TableColumn col = new TableColumn(table, SWT.LEFT);

col.setText("A&B"); --> displays "AB"
col.setText("A&&B"); --> displays "A B"
col.setText("A\&B"); --> displays "AB"
col.setText("A\&&B"); --> displays "A B"

Is it possible to display the '&' character in a TableColumn? Or is this
a bug with the SWT Table?

Thanks in advance.

Matthew

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Re: Table Column: displaying the & character [message #464504 is a reply to message #464409]

Wed, 23 November 2005 15:35

Veronika Irvine

Messages: 1272
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

From TableColumn.setText() for Windows:

/*
* Bug in Windows. When a column header contains a
* mnemonic character, Windows does not measure the
* text properly. This causes '...' to always appear
* at the end of the text. The fix is to remove
* mnemonic characters and replace doubled mnemonics
* with spaces.
*/

"Matthew Ma" <matthew1801@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4bf994fab5717e467cf89f5b9805bfb4$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> I am using an SWT Table, trying to display an '&' character in a table
> column. I have tried the following without success:
>
> TableColumn col = new TableColumn(table, SWT.LEFT);
>
> col.setText("A&B"); --> displays "AB"
> col.setText("A&&B"); --> displays "A B"
> col.setText("A\&B"); --> displays "AB"
> col.setText("A\&&B"); --> displays "A B"
>
> Is it possible to display the '&' character in a TableColumn? Or is this
> a bug with the SWT Table?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Matthew
>
>

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