I have this table in Eclipse SWT, with 5 columns. I resize the window and together with that the whole table but the columns don't get resized to fill all the available space.
Is there a layout method I can use in order to make a column resize itself to fill all the available space? I found some code that makes the columns resize when the client space has been resized but that seems like a small hack to me.
There surely must be a decent elegant way of doing this by using the layout itself.
This might come in handy:
Composite tableComposite = new Composite(parent, SWT.NONE);
TableViewer xslTable = new TableViewer(tableComposite, SWT.SINGLE | SWT.FULL_SELECTION | SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL);
xslTable.getTable().setLinesVisible(true);
xslTable.getTable().setHeaderVisible(true);
TableViewerColumn stylesheetColumn = new TableViewerColumn(xslTable, SWT.NONE);
stylesheetColumn.getColumn().setText(COLUMN_NAMES[0]);
stylesheetColumn.getColumn().setResizable(false);
TableViewerColumn conceptColumn = new TableViewerColumn(xslTable, SWT.NONE);
conceptColumn.getColumn().setText(COLUMN_NAMES[1]);
conceptColumn.getColumn().setResizable(false);
TableColumnLayout tableLayout = new TableColumnLayout();
tableComposite.setLayout(tableLayout);
layoutTableColumns();
The layoutTableColumns
method
/**
* Resize table columns so the concept column is packed and the stylesheet column takes the rest of the space
*/
private void layoutTableColumns()
{
// Resize the columns to fit the contents
conceptColumn.getColumn().pack();
stylesheetColumn.getColumn().pack();
// Use the packed widths as the minimum widths
int stylesheetWidth = stylesheetColumn.getColumn().getWidth();
int conceptWidth = conceptColumn.getColumn().getWidth();
// Set stylesheet column to fill 100% and concept column to fit 0%, but with their packed widths as minimums
tableLayout.setColumnData(stylesheetColumn.getColumn(), new ColumnWeightData(100, stylesheetWidth));
tableLayout.setColumnData(conceptColumn.getColumn(), new ColumnWeightData(0, conceptWidth));
}
This is what, I have tried and it is working fine.
viewer.getControl().addControlListener(new ControlListener() {
@Override
public void controlResized(ControlEvent arg0) {
Rectangle rect = viewer.getTable().getClientArea();
if(rect.width>0){
int extraSpace=rect.width/4;
col1.getColumn().setWidth(extraSpace);
col2.getColumn().setWidth(extraSpace);
col3.getColumn().setWidth(extraSpace);
col4.getColumn().setWidth(extraSpace);
}
}
@Override
public void controlMoved(ControlEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});