I have a Tableviewer in which Objects are added really fast and I need the user to be able to select certain elements. The problem is that I can't find a way to make the scrollbar stop scrolling. I just want a button, which locks the Table at the current position.
Maybe you have an answer.
[Edit]
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You can use Toggle Button as Eclipse console have. You need to maintain below two states of button event.
- table#setSelection(item) will select the last item whichever is added.(Auto Scroll)
- tableviewer#refresh(object,true,false) can be used to preserve the selection(Scroll Lock).
Here, I created Snippet which will help you to understand how to use refresh in tableviewer:
public class SamplePart {
private static int i = 1;
private Text txtInput;
private TableViewer tableViewer;
@Inject
private MDirtyable dirty;
private Table table;
private TableColumn column;
private Button btnNewButton;
@PostConstruct
public void createComposite(Composite parent) {
parent.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, false));
txtInput = new Text(parent, SWT.BORDER);
txtInput.setMessage("Enter text to mark part as dirty");
txtInput.addModifyListener(new ModifyListener() {
@Override
public void modifyText(ModifyEvent e) {
dirty.setDirty(true);
}
});
txtInput.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.FILL_HORIZONTAL));
btnNewButton = new Button(parent, SWT.TOGGLE);
btnNewButton.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
@Override
public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
if(!btnNewButton.getSelection()){
//once button is pressed it will preserve the selection
tableViewer.refresh( table , true, false);
}
}
});
btnNewButton.setText("scroll");
tableViewer = new TableViewer(parent);
table = tableViewer.getTable();
column = new TableColumn(table, SWT.NONE);
column.setText("Column " + 0);
TableItem item = new TableItem(table, SWT.NONE);
item.setText(0, "sample Item " );
GridData gridData = new GridData(GridData.FILL_BOTH);
gridData.horizontalSpan = 2;
gridData.widthHint = 440;
tableViewer.getTable().setLayoutData(gridData);
Job job = new Job("UI") {
@Override
protected IStatus run(IProgressMonitor monitor) {
for(int j = 1 ; j<10000000; j++){
Display.getDefault().syncExec(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
try {
Thread.currentThread().sleep(100);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
addItem();
table.getColumn(0).pack();
}
});
}
return ASYNC_FINISH;
}
};
job.schedule();
}
private void addItem() {
i++;
TableItem item = new TableItem(table, SWT.NONE);
item.setText(0, "sample Item "+i );
if(!btnNewButton.getSelection()){
table.setSelection(item);
}
}
@Focus
public void setFocus() {
tableViewer.getTable().setFocus();
}
@Persist
public void save() {
dirty.setDirty(false);
}
}