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Bug 357805

Summary:

CheckBoxTableViewer: if multiple rows are selected, Space toggles only one item

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Thomas Singer <eclipse>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

eclipse.felipe

Version:

4.1

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 7

Whiteboard:

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sample to reproduce the bug	none

Description Thomas Singer

2011-09-15 10:02:24 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.7.0.v3735b

Run the attached sample code and select both rows. Now press Space. Instead of all rows to be checked, only one is checked.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Thomas Singer

2011-09-15 10:02:44 EDT

Created attachment 203410 [details]
sample to reproduce the bug

Comment 2 Felipe Heidrich

2011-09-19 14:57:00 EDT

I think this behaviour is by design, test on gtk and mac. It all the same.
The idea is that backspace only acts on the focus item (on windows, that is the item with the dot rectangle around, you can move it holding the alt key + arrow up and down, without changing the selection).
sorry that this is not the behaviour you expect but if I change it I break people who relie on this.

Comment 3 Thomas Singer

2011-09-20 11:59:10 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> The idea is that backspace only acts on the focus item

Backspace or space?

How to otherwise select/unselect all items easily? Could I override somehow the current behavior in platform-specific way?

Comment 4 Felipe Heidrich

2011-09-21 11:51:27 EDT

space, sorry.

I think I can overwrite it.
hook a keyDown listener, listen for space and call setSelection() on each item in the selection. do forget to stop the default handler from running by setting event.doit to false.