Thursday 19 July 2007

Eclipse SWT: Disabling selection event in a Table

Sometimes we do not want users to be able to select cells or rows in the tables, but the standard styles for SWT Table widget do not give a NOSELECTION option.

This, however, can be easily achieved by masking the selection event, Just use the following piece of code for creating your tables:
final Table table = new Table(group, SWT.SINGLE | SWT.BORDER);
table.addListener(SWT.EraseItem, new Listener() {
public void handleEvent(Event event) {
if((event.detail & SWT.SELECTED) != 0 ){
event.detail &= ~SWT.SELECTED;
}
}
});

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

It doesn't work.
My rows remain selected...

Are you sure?

Anonymous said...

It works!! Thanks a lot !:)

Unknown said...

does not work in unix. Any other way to accomplish this?

Anonymous said...

It works on linux! Bless u! :)

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Anonymous said...

not working in mac os

Anonymous said...

please suggest if anything for mac