bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/viewers/TableViewerColumn.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2006 Tom Schindl and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     Tom Schindl - initial API and implementation
 *     Boris Bokowski (IBM Corporation) - Javadoc improvements
 ******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.jface.viewers;

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Table;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TableColumn;

/**
 * ViewerColumn implementation for TableViewer to enable column-specific label
 * providers and editing support.
 * 
 * @since 3.3
 */
public final class TableViewerColumn extends ViewerColumn {
	private TableColumn column;

	/**
	 * Creates a new viewer column for the given {@link TableViewer} on a new
	 * {@link TableColumn} with the given style bits. The column is added at the
	 * end of the list of columns.
	 * 
	 * @param viewer
	 *            the table viewer to which this column belongs
	 * @param style
	 *            the style used to create the column, for applicable style bits
	 *            see {@link TableColumn}
	 * @see TableColumn#TableColumn(Table, int)
	 */
	public TableViewerColumn(TableViewer viewer, int style) {
		this(viewer, style, -1);
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new viewer column for the given {@link TableViewer} on a new
	 * {@link TableColumn} with the given style bits. The column is inserted at
	 * the given index into the list of columns.
	 * 
	 * @param viewer
	 *            the table viewer to which this column belongs
	 * @param style
	 *            the style used to create the column, for applicable style bits
	 *            see {@link TableColumn}
	 * @param index
	 *            the index at which to place the newly created column
	 * @see TableColumn#TableColumn(Table, int, int)
	 */
	public TableViewerColumn(TableViewer viewer, int style, int index) {
		this(viewer, createColumn(viewer.getTable(), style, index));
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new viewer column for the given {@link TableViewer} on the given
	 * {@link TableColumn}.
	 * 
	 * @param viewer
	 *            the table viewer to which this column belongs
	 * @param column
	 *            the underlying table column
	 */
	public TableViewerColumn(TableViewer viewer, TableColumn column) {
		super(viewer, column);
		this.column = column;
	}
	
	private static TableColumn createColumn(Table table, int style, int index) {
		if (index >= 0) {
			return new TableColumn(table, style, index);
		}

		return new TableColumn(table, style);
	}

	/**
	 * @return the underlying SWT table column
	 */
	public TableColumn getColumn() {
		return column;
	}
}