Chapter 8. Working with trees and lists

 

 

In this chapter and the next, we’ll explore some of the most useful widgets provided by JFace. However, the framework that goes along with those widgets is also one of the most complicated that we’ll cover in this book, so pay attention.

Certain widgets’ main purpose is to display sets of data. Although the data can be anything from rows in a database to a list of your most frequently played mp3s, certain common ways of structuring that data for display occur frequently. Even when the final display is very different, many common tasks must be done to make sure the data is ready to be shown to the user. The data ...

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