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Bug 206692

Summary:	[Viewers]Multiple row selection in tables disabled when using JFace 3.3 keyboard editing support
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Linda Damus <ldamus>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	bokowski, ccc, jon.jekeli, saravana.babu, sptaszkiewicz, tom.schindl, yharms, zalapa
Version:	3.2	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Linda Damus

2007-10-17 16:47:45 EDT

After implementing JFace 3.3 keyboard editing support for my TableViewer (whose style includes SWT.MULTI), I lost the abiliby to select multiple rows in the table by both mouse and keyboard.

Just to be sure that my implementation wasn't at fault, I ran the Snippet044NoColumnTableViewerKeyboardEditing JFace snippet with SWT.MULTI added to its TableViewer style, and discovered that it, too, does not support multi-selection of rows by either mouse or keyboard.

Comment 1 Thomas Schindl

2007-10-17 17:25:34 EDT

We currently don't support KeyBoard-Navigation in conjunction with SWT.MULTI sorry. It seems we missed this fact in the JavaDoc of Tree/TableFocusManager. Feel free to dive into the code and think about a possible solution :-)

Comment 2 Thomas Schindl

2008-08-22 17:17:56 EDT

*** Bug 244960 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Saravana Babu

2009-11-30 04:13:23 EST

Hey tom,

I have some requirnment like focus cell as well selection of that particular
cell. Like Creating an order by traversing across each and every cell then i
need to provide selection of the rows and send all the selcted rows to the
service layer.
I would feel that the focus cell manager usage removes the selection of the
rows . Hope full i would require any body help in getting resolved this issue.


Please revert me as soon as possible or help me with code snippets.

with regards,
Saravana Babu

Comment 4 Thomas Schindl

2010-01-28 17:13:20 EST

multi change because of intenion of stepping back as platform-ui committer

Comment 5 Lars Vogel

2019-11-27 07:24:57 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got
resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some
reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it.
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still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is
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