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Placing the Text Editor after mouse click and exchange data between table cell and editor
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import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.custom.TableEditor;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.ModifyEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.ModifyListener;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.MouseAdapter;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.MouseEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Point;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Rectangle;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Table;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TableColumn;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TableItem;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text;
public class TableEditorMouseClickText {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Display display = new Display();
final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
shell.setText("Text Table Editor");
shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
final Table table = new Table(shell, SWT.SINGLE | SWT.FULL_SELECTION | SWT.HIDE_SELECTION);
table.setHeaderVisible(true);
table.setLinesVisible(true);
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
TableColumn column = new TableColumn(table, SWT.CENTER);
column.setText("Column " + (i + 1));
column.pack();
}
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
final TableItem item = new TableItem(table, SWT.NONE);
}
final TableEditor editor = new TableEditor(table);
editor.horizontalAlignment = SWT.LEFT;
editor.grabHorizontal = true;
table.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
public void mouseDown(MouseEvent event) {
Control old = editor.getEditor();
if (old != null)
old.dispose();
Point pt = new Point(event.x, event.y);
final TableItem item = table.getItem(pt);
if (item == null) {
return;
}
int column = -1;
for (int i = 0, n = table.getColumnCount(); i < n; i++) {
Rectangle rect = item.getBounds(i);
if (rect.contains(pt)) {
column = i;
break;
}
}
if (column != 1) {
return;
}
final Text text = new Text(table, SWT.NONE);
text.setForeground(item.getForeground());
text.setText(item.getText(column));
text.setForeground(item.getForeground());
text.selectAll();
text.setFocus();
editor.minimumWidth = text.getBounds().width;
editor.setEditor(text, item, column);
final int col = column;
text.addModifyListener(new ModifyListener() {
public void modifyText(ModifyEvent event) {
item.setText(col, text.getText());
}
});
}
});
shell.pack();
shell.open();
while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
display.sleep();
}
}
display.dispose();
}
}
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