Description John Ruud 2004-04-01 19:01:56 EST

Label providers are useful for updating the text and icons of JFace viewer
items, but it is also often desirable to change the colors and fonts.
IColorProvider will change the colors of items in TreeViewer, but in the
table viewers it doesn't seem to be possible to control the color of each
item in a row, only of complete rows. PropertySheetViewer doesn't pay any
attention to the color provider.

It would be very useful to be able to control the text, color, and font of
the individual viewer items (widgets) at the JFace level. One approach may
be to implement a IFontProvider similar to the IColorProvider, and making
the viewers (i.e. TreeViewer, TableViewer, TableTreeViewer, and
PropertySheetViewer) pay attention to it. For the table-based viewers it is
desirable to control individual items as opposed to rows (similar reason to
why ITableLabelProvider was introduced, I guess).