Bug 363280

Description Beat Schwarzentrub 2011-11-09 05:26:58 EST

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In Swing-Scout, multiple sorting columns can be combined by holding the Ctrl key while clicking a column header. This feature is quite handy when browsing large lists of data. It works similar to the "ORDER BY" clause in SQL.

In SWT, that feature does not work, the Ctrl key is completely neglected, and "only" a normal sort operation is applied. This is likely due to a former SWT bug that did not include the modifier keys in the SelectionEvent (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=65679). That bug is fixed since 2009, so Scout should use the now-working stateMask to implement the behaviour described above.

I will add a patch for SwtScoutTable.java that enables the multi-sort behaviour and removes the TODO. Because SWT is not able to indicate more than one column as "sorted" (i.e. draw a small up/down arrow in the column header), the patch adds an indicator text ("[a-z]" and "[z-a]", respectively) to the column header for all sorting columns except the first one.

Reproducible: Always