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JFaceSnippets


JFace-Snippets are small and easy understandable programming examples of how to use the JFace API. To browse the examples, navigate to the examples GIT repository.

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Dialogs

Snippet012 - Dialog with Image Buttons


Demonstrates usage of Icons in Buttons of Dialogs

Snippet012DialogWithImageButtons.png

Drop these icons also in the same package

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Snippet082 - Color Selector


The JFace ColorSelector widget is a convenient composition of button and color selector dialog. The button displays a swatch of the selected color.


Snippet082ColorSelectDialog.gif

Notification

Snippet081 - Notication API


Demonstrates usage of the non-blocking notification API


Snippet081 Shell1.gif

Layout

Snippet013 - Grid Layout Factory


Demonstrates usage of the GridLayoutFactory to enhance readability

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Snippet016 - Table Layout


Demonstrates (dynamic)layout support for TableColumns available as of JFace 3.3

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Snippet027 - Tree Layout


Demonstrates (dynamic)layout support for TreeColumns available as of JFace 3.3

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Viewers

Snippet001 - Table Viewer


Demonstrates a simply TableViewer with one column. It holds all important classes used for all Table-like JFace-Viewers (LabelProvider,IStructuredContentProvider)

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Snippet002 - Tree Viewer


Demonstrates a simply TreeViewer with one column. It describes all important classes used for all Tree-like JFace-Viewers (LabelProvider,ITreeContentProvider)

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Snippet003 - Table Label Provider


Demonstrates tables with more than one column and the usage of ITableLabelProvider

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Snippet004 - Hide Selection


Demonstrates how the selection can be hidden when the user clicks in a table-row/column which doesn't hold any information. The standard behavior of SWT-Table is to leave the selection on the last column. This snippet removes the selection if the user clicks in an area not selectable

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Snippet005 - Tree Custom Menu


Demonstrates how to create a different context menu depending on which item in the tree is currently selected this can also be used with a table of course

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Snippet006 - Table Multi Line Cells


Demonstrates first use case for the OwnerDraw-Support added to JFace in 3.3 (available at SWT-Level since 3.2). This example uses the Viewers API in this special case the OwnerDrawLabelProvider to make items with more than one line of text.

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Snippet007 - Full Selection


Demonstrates how you can use inline editing in tables with multiple columns that require to use SWT.FULL_SELECTION but hiding the selection from the user.

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Snippet008 - Reveal Element


Demonstrates how you can scroll a TableViewer to the specific model element using TableViewer#reveal(Object)

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Snippet009 - Cell Editors


Demonstrates minimal example when trying to add inline editing to tables to get familiar with the various classes needed (3.2 API)

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Snippet010 - Owner Draw


Demonstrates usage of the OwnerDraw-Support feature provided by JFace in 3.3(available in SWT since 3.2). This example uses the Viewers API in this special case the OwnerDrawLabelProvider.

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Snippet011 - Custom Tooltips


Demonstrates usage of custom tooltip support in 3.3 used to provide a tooltip for each cell in TableViewer

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Snippet013 - Table Viewer No Mandatory Label Provider]


Demonstrates usage of none mandatory LabelProviders in TableViewers to set colors and fonts with 3.2-API

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Snippet014 - Tree Viewer No Mandatory Label Provider]


Demonstrates usage of none mandatory LabelProviders in TreeViewers to set colors and font with 3.2-API

Snippet014TreeViewerNoMandatoryLabelProvider.png

Snippet015 - Custom Tooltips For Tree


Demonstrates usage of custom tooltip support used to provide a tooltip for each cell in a TreeViewer

Snippet015CustomTooltipsForTree.png

Snippet017 - Table Viewer Hide Show Columns


Demonstrates hiding and showing columns (animated)

Snippet017TableViewerHideShowColumns.png

Snippet019 - Table Viewer Add Remove Columns With Editing


Demonstrates adding/removing of columns in conjunction with the inline editing with JFace-API

Snippet019TableViewerAddRemoveColumnsWithEditing.png

Snippet024 - Table Viewer Explore


Demonstrates the base classes of 3.3 API

Snippet024TableViewerExploreNewAPI.png

Snippet025 - Tab Editing


Demonstrates how one can use the 3.3 API to add tab-editing support to your viewer

Snippet025TabEditing.png

Press Tab to jump from cell to cell

Snippet026 - Tree Viewer Tab Editing


Demonstrates all fancy things one can do with the 3.3 API (Tab-Editing, Keyboard-Navigation from Cell to Cell, Editor-Activation with the Keyboard)

Snippet026TreeViewerTabEditing.gif

Snippet027 - Combo Box Cell Editors


Demonstrates usage of the ComboBoxCellEditor in JFace-Viewers

Snippet027ComboBoxCellEditors.png

Snippet029 - Virtual Table Viewer


Demonstrates usage of JFace-Viewers in "virtual" mode with an ordinary content provider (often the bottleneck is not the model but the UI). Using these Virtual viewers in conjunction with an ordinary content provider has the advantage that Sorting and Filtering are supported in 3.3.

Snippet030 - Virtual Lazy Table Viewer


Demonstrates usage of JFace-Viewer virtual mode with a lazy content provider

Snippet031 - Table Viewer Custom Tooltips Multi Selection]


Demonstrates creation of tooltips for cells for pre 3.3 users

Snippet031TableViewerCustomTooltipsMultiSelection.png

Snippet034 - Cell Editor Per Row


Demonstrates different CellEditor-Types in one COLUMN of JFace-Viewers

Snippet034CellEditorPerRow.png

Snippet035 - Table Cursor Cell Highlighter


Demonstrates keyboard navigation in TableViewers using a TableCursor showing the flexibility of the cell navigation support

You also need these classes:


Snippet035TableCursorCellHighlighter.png

Snippet036 - Focus Border Cell Highlighter


Demonstrates keyboard navigation by highlighting the currently selected cell with a focus border showing once more the flexibility of the cell navigation support

You also need:


Snippet036FocusBorderCellHighlighter.png

Snippet037 - Fancy Custom Tooltips


Demonstrates customizability of the 3.3 JFace-Support for cell tooltips using the Browser-Widget and presenting HTML

Snippet037FancyCustomTooltips.png

Snippet039 - List Viewer


Demonstrates a very simple usage of ListViewer

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Snippet040 - Table Viewer Sorting


Demonstrates sorting (ascending/descending) in TableViewers by clicking the column header.

Snippet040TableViewerSorting.png

Snippet 041 - Table Viewer Alternating Colors and Viewer Filters


Demonstrates how to achieve alternating row-colors with TableViewer. It can also be used in conjunction with virtual-bits to even work with big tables (e.g. 100,000 rows in this example). In addition, this snippet provided a button that will demonstrate the usage of viewer filters.

Snippet041TableViewerAlternatingColors.png

Snippet043 - Tree Viewer Keyboard Editing


Demonstrates the JFace 3.3 keyboard editing support for Trees without columns. Tabbing from editor to editor is supported since 3.4. In addition, this snippet provided a button that shows how to enter in edit mode programmatically.

Snippet043TreeViewerKeyboardEditing.png

Snippet044 - Table Viewer Keyboard Editing


Demonstrates the JFace 3.3 keyboard editing support for Tables without columns. Tabbing from editor to editor is supported since 3.4.

You also need:

Snippet045 - Table Viewer Fill From Background Thread


Demonstrates how a TableViewer with a sorter can be filled from a NON-UI thread

Snippet045TableViewerFillFromBackgroundThread.gif

Snippet046 - Update Viewer From Background Thread


Demonstrates how to update a viewer from a long-running task (which is executed in a thread) and calls back to the UI-Thread using "asyncExec".

Snippet046UpdateViewerFromBackgroundThread.gif

Snippet047 - Virtual Lazy Tree Viewer


Demonstrates the usage of ILazyContentProvider in conjunction with a Virtual-TreeViewer. The snippet shows how using a lazy tree can minimize the memory footprint and maximize the speed when viewing large models.

Snippet047VirtualLazyTreeViewer.png

Snippet048 - Tree Viewer Tab With Checkbox


Demonstrates how to overcome a limitation when it comes to key-navigation and CheckBoxEditors in 3.3.1.

This is a workaround for bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=198502

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Snippet049 - Styled Cell Label Provider


Demonstrates a LabelProvider-Type which uses StyleRanges. This Snippet requires SWT/JFace 3.4.

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Snippet050 - Delegating Styled Cell Label Provider


Demonstrates how you can add styled text by wrapping an existing label provider. This Snippet requires SWT/JFace 3.4.

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Snippet051 - Table Centered Image


Demonstrate how to center an image and create graphics in a cell using a technique called "owner draw".

Snippet051TableCenteredImage.png

Snippet052 - Double Click Cell Editor


Demonstrate how to start cell-editors on double click.

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Snippet053 - Start Editor With Context Menu


Demonstrate how to start up a cell editor with a context menu and not with mouse clicking on the cell.

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Snippet055 - Hide Show Column


Demonstrate hiding and showing columns and starting a cell editor programmatically.

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Snippet056 - Boolean Cell Editor


Demonstrate a custom cell-editor which uses a real Checkbox-Button

You also need these classes:


Snippet056BooleanCellEditor.png

Snippet057 - Table Viewer Skip Hidden Cells


Example of showing how easy cell-navigation with hidden cells is. Use the cursor keys to navigate between cells. Then use the context menu to hide a column.

Snippet057TableViewerSkipHiddenCells.png

Snippet058 - Cell Navigation


Shows how to automatically reveal cells when navigating. Run the snippet and then edit the first cell by double-clicking. Pressing the tab key will advance to the next cell in edit mode and reveal the cell if it is not in the viewport.

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Snippet060 - Text Cell Editor With Content Proposal/Field assists


Show how to use content-proposal inside a CellEditor

Snippet060TextCellEditorWithContentProposal.png

Snippet061 - Faked Native Cell Editor


Full-featured native-looking viewer with checkboxes in an arbitrary column

You also need these classes:


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Snippet062 - Text And Dialog Cell Editor


Demonstrates usage of TextAndDialogCellEditor. The email column uses the TextAndDialogCellEditor; othe columns use ordinary TextCellEditor.

You also need these classes:


Snippet062TextAndDialogCellEditor.png

Snippet063 - Combo Viewer


Show how to use ComboViewer and set an initial selection

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Snippet064 - Replacing elements in a TreeViewer with child elements


A TreeViewer with observable collections as input, to demonstrate, how elements are replaced, especially what happens to selected items on replacement

Snippet064TreeViewerReplacingElements.png

Snippet065 - Replacing elements in a TreeViewer without child elements


A TreeViewer with observable collections as input, to demonstrate, how elements are replaced, especially what happens to selected items on replacement

Snippet065TableViewerReplacingElements.png

Snippet066 - TableViewer with Label Decorator


A TableViewer that shows how to add a status icon to a Label with IStyledLabelProvider and DecorationOverlayIcon

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Window

Snippet020 - Customized Control Tooltips


Demonstrates usage of JFace 3.3 to show really cool ToolTips for your controls

For full fun you also need:


Snippet020CustomizedControlTooltips.png

Snippet031 - Table Static Tooltip


Demonstrates creation of ToolTips for Tables without using the JFace-Viewers API but only JFace-Tooltips

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Wizard

Snippet047 - Wizard with Long Running Operation from Page


Demonstrates how to work with JFace-Wizards and fill a TableViewer from a Background-Thread without blocking the UI showing a progress bar in the meanwhile

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Snippet071 - Wizard with Progress and Cancel


Demonstrates a wizard with internal progress.

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Snippet072 Wizard with Progress Subtasks and Cancel

Demonstrates a wizard with internal progress using SubMonitor and subtasks.

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Snippet074 Wizard with access to application window


Demonstrates a wizard that enables access to the calling shell...

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