I need a file chooser dialog, so I'm making one...

So I need a table to stuff the directory listing into, and Table looks like it ought to be right for it. But, it seems to be only row-oriented -- doesn't seem you can select an individual cell, selecting activates the whole row. And the selected method returns a list of selected rows.

I understand not all APIs are incomplete; which direction is it going? Is Table going to extend to allow cell-by-cell selection, or do I need to go with GridPane and load it with Labels?

Actually Table seems right for its intended purpose, columns being fields and rows being records; I'm just trying to warp it into being a Grid.

I think the current row-oriented model is the way it should work.

I wouldn't want to take away from how it does work, but I wonder if the api could be extended a little bit, maybe, to allow cell-select as an option maybe.

Table is so close in appearance to being right for things that look like a spreadsheet (grid layout, cell-selectable, could select whole row or whole column with click on header), that it seems a shame to have to use something completely different.

Found this on the topic. Interesting that SWT isn't aiming for spreadsheet ideas here. I haven't studied in detail.

Why doesn't FileDialog work, by the way? Note, I haven't really used fwt at all. I'm just wondering.

SWT usually doesn't aim for the high-level UI constructs--their stated goal is to deliver fast, efficient access to the native UI of the windowing system.

Check out JFace for cell editing and other higher level UI constructs.

See also Nebula

Why doesn't FileDialog work

uhh... does stupidity count? I don't know how I missed it.