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NatTable does not fit to empty space [message #986356]

Tue, 20 November 2012 08:46

Bjoern Berg

Messages: 47
Registered: November 2009
Location: Essen

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Hi,

I am trying to use NatTable inside an RCP application in an editor. This works fine so far, but NatTable does not take the empty space or renders empty rows to fit the free space.

Is there an easy way to tell NatTable to render additional columns or expand the existing columns automatically to to fit free space?

With the normal SWT Table this is not a problem...

Regards,
Björn

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Re: NatTable does not fit to empty space [message #986364 is a reply to message #986356]

Tue, 20 November 2012 09:06

Dirk Fauth

Messages: 2902
Registered: July 2012

Senior Member

Hi Björn,

there are currently two options for this:

1. Use the NatGridLayerPainter which paints the grid lines in the remaining space. Unfortunately the column header isn't painted this way and therefore it looks strange IMHO. You can use it like this

NatGridLayerPainter layerPainter = new NatGridLayerPainter(natTable);
natTable.setLayerPainter(layerPainter);

2. Use the percentage sizing feature of the NatTable. You can configure your DataLayer to use percentage sizing, so the column sizes will be calculated taking the available space into account. You can use it like this

dataLayer.setColumnPercentageSizing(true);
dataLayer.setColumnWidthByPosition(0, 40);
dataLayer.setColumnWidthByPosition(2, 40);

If you don't feel comfortable with these solutions, feel free to open a bug on this.

Greez,
Dirk

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Re: NatTable does not fit to empty space [message #986876 is a reply to message #986364]

Thu, 22 November 2012 08:42

Bjoern Berg

Messages: 47
Registered: November 2009
Location: Essen

Member

Hi Dirk,

thanks for your reply.
Both solutions are not the best way solving the problem:
1. Rendering only the Grid looks like the Grid is missing data.

2. Setting percentage size per column, means you have to set a data layer depending on the data you want to display

I think it is not a bug, more a requested Feature. Smile

I will investigate some time and maybe post a quick fix soon.

Regards,
Björn

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Re: NatTable does not fit to empty space [message #986884 is a reply to message #986876]

Thu, 22 November 2012 09:14

Dirk Fauth

Messages: 2902
Registered: July 2012

Senior Member

Hi Björn,

we really appreciate any help on such features. And of course you are right, it is not a bug, it's a feature. But as we are tracking every bug and enhancement in bugzilla now, it should be a bug entry there. You can categorize it as enhancement in the Importance section.

If you like, you can create a bug (enhancement) for this and contribute via patch. Smile

This way it is tracked for the release notes correctly.

Greez,
Dirk

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