I have been toying around with Eclipse plug-in development recently and when I tried to bind an SWT Text to a String in my data model using the Eclipse Bindings tab, the code it generated was relyi...

I'd like a TextCellEditor with the standard auto-complete behaviour, that that any user nowadays expects when typing inside an input cell with a list of suggested strings. For a good working exampl...

I'm facing the problem, that a implemented CheckboxTreeViewer works perfect on Linux Debian, but under Windows doesn't. First of all I don't understand the concept of "setGrayed()".. Is it to show,...

I am using a Table Viewer with check boxes as following: final TableViewer legendViewer = new TableViewer(parent, SWT.CHECK); What is THE solution to listen to check boxes selection/unselection ...

I’m pretty new in SWT/JFace technology and I’ve found a problem that it’s driving me crazy. In an Eclipse RCP application I have a view where I’ve placed a SWT tree with a JFace TreeViewer which pr...

I have following problems with layout settings in the FieldEditorPreferencePage. My code is something like this: public void createFieldEditors () { Group pv = new group(getfieldEditorParent(), ...

TL;DR Based on Thomas Schindl's article JFace-Viewer and Eclipse Databinding with > 10.000 Objects (which suggests a very good idea), I'd like to convert a regular TreeViewer + multiple ITreeConte...

I have this JFace dialog: setShellStyle(SWT.APPLICATION_MODAL | SWT.CLOSE); setBlockOnOpen(false); Is there a way to make it close by clicking somewhere outside the dialog? Maybe something like ...

Group group = new Group(parent, SWT.NONE); StyledText comment = new StyledText(group, SWT.BORDER_DASH); This creates a group with a text area inside. How can I later delete the text (remove it f...

Button click to open FileDialog Box and selected any image to display on specific label. i try to set absolute path or relative path using selected images in Label control but not proper working d...

I need a wizard which second page content depends on the first page's selection. The first page asks the user the "kind" of filter he wants to create and the second one asks the user to create one ...

pratically I build up a tableviewer as usual, but initially it does not sort all the rows according the column defined for sorting. The code I am using: viewer.getTable().setSortColumn(viewer.get...

What I'd like to do is be able to tab between elements in table. I currently am creating my table like this. this.tableViewer = new TableViewer(parent , SWT.FULL_SELECTION); tableViewer.setU...

I'm pretty sure what I'm asking is impossible, but I couldn't find a definitive no to the question anywhere, so here it goes: Consider the following working example: public class TableViewerSorte...

In my Eclipse RCP application I use the Selection Service as described in this nice article. There is a TreeViewer in one view registered as a SelectionProvider: getSite().setSelectionProvider(vie...

How to use log4j logging API in an Eclipse RCP project? As a workaround U tried to create a new OSGI Bundle which has a log4j jars, below is the bundle structure: I've crated a basic RCP applic...

I have always wondered why we exactly need ContentProviders for JFace TableViewers? I know that getElements() method of a ContentProvider class will return an Array or Collection of Objects which c...

This is a gridLayout in which the Available side is a Tree Viewer and The Selected side is a ListViewer. Now I have to get a toolTip on the right hand side. Which I am unable to get. I am working...

Did anybody else notice that there is a huge performance difference between a TreeViewer and a TableViewer (TreeViewer is much faster). I have a Table containing CellEditors (with EditingSupport)...

I have a Java Eclipse RCP program in which I have a a long string inside a JFace combobox. Now when I am in the same view,The combobox attaches a scroll over it to show the full name. but as soon a...

I was wondering if anyone could explain to me how I could properly bind a group of radio buttons to a boolean variable in the model using JFace data binding. Let me explain the situation first: I'...

I currently want to write an Eclipse editor based on a JFace TreeViewer. I added a CellLabelProvider to the TreeViewer. If I set the font of a cell with directly in the update method of the CellLab...

Is it possible to always show the vertical scroll bar in a SWT table even if the table is empty? By always showing a (possible disabled) vertical scroll bar one can avoid that the last column get p...

I have a Composite(container) which is inside another composite(Dialog area). The container contains some UI elements. How can I either make the size of the dialog bigger or make it resizeable. Her...

Does anyone know where I can download the javadoc files for Swt and/or JFace? I do not want the api docs for the rest of Eclipse. I found a place where the docs are available for reading online bu...