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How to show horizontal scrollbar in table without using TableColumn.pack() [message #480933]

Wed, 19 August 2009 01:41

Praveen K Subramanian

Messages: 11
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi all,

I have a table with two columns(as in the code below). The value in the
second column is long and adding column2.pack() makes the dialog look big.
But if I set column2.width(specific number) instead of column2.pack(),
then the horizontal scrollbar won't be visible for that column.

Is there a workaround?

Code snippet:

final Table table = new Table(shell, SWT.BORDER | SWT.RESIZE |
SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL);
table.setLayoutData(new GridData(SWT.FILL, SWT.FILL, true, true));

final TableColumn column1 = new TableColumn(table, SWT.LEFT);
column1.setText("Column 1");

final TableColumn column2 = new TableColumn(table, SWT.LEFT);
column2.setText("Column 2");

table.setHeaderVisible(true);
table.setLinesVisible(true);

final TableItem item = new TableItem(table, SWT.NULL);
item.setText(0, "abcdefgh");
item.setText(1, "123456789012345678901234567890");

column1.pack();
column2.pack();

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Re: How to show horizontal scrollbar in table without using TableColumn.pack() [message #481789 is a reply to message #480933]

Mon, 24 August 2009 10:43

Praveen Missing name

Messages: 6
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Instead of calling shell.pack(), if shell.setSize() is used, then the
dialog will appear as the preferred size and at the same time, scrollbar
would appear on Table as well.
So, the main idea is that - the table has to be contained in a
Scrolled-Composite and set it's preferred size. Thus, table will be
displayed smaller than it's original size and scrollbar will appear.

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