Java:SWT: Preserve Font Colour When The Row Is Selected

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        Java:SWT: Preserve font colour when the row is selected

package ca.freewill.swt.test;

import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IBaseLabelProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ITableColorProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TableViewer;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Rectangle;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Event;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Listener;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Table;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TableItem;

/**
 * Preserve the font colour of the highlighted line. Note that if the foreground
 * colour of the row is the same as the background colour, then the text will
 * essentially disappear.
 */
public class ForegroundColourPreserver {

	/*
	 * Support for tables with a single foreground colour, used by all table
	 * cells.
	 */
	private static class SingleColorProvider implements ITableColorProvider {
		private final Table table;
		public SingleColorProvider(Table table) {
			this.table = table;
		}
		public Color getBackground(Object arg0, int arg1) {
			return null;
		}
		public Color getForeground(Object arg0, int arg1) {
			return table.getForeground();
		}
	}

	private final ITableColorProvider colorProvider;

	/**
	 * Preserve the table font colour by adding a paint listener to redraw the
	 * table item text in the expected colour.
	 * 
	 * Note that the row will be hard to read or illegible if the foreground
	 * colour is close to the background colour.
	 * 
	 * @param table
	 *            the table to paint.
	 */
	public ForegroundColourPreserver(TableViewer tableViewer) {

		IBaseLabelProvider labelProvider = tableViewer.getLabelProvider();
		if (labelProvider instanceof ITableColorProvider) {
			colorProvider = (ITableColorProvider) labelProvider;
		} else {
			colorProvider = new SingleColorProvider(tableViewer.getTable());
		}

		tableViewer.getTable().addListener(SWT.PaintItem, new Listener() {
			public void handleEvent(Event event) {
				ForegroundColourPreserver.this.handleEvent(event);
			}
		});
	}

	/*
	 * Repaint the text. Note the one pixel jog to the right. This may change in
	 * a subsequent SWT release.
	 */
	protected void handleEvent(Event event) {
		TableItem item = (TableItem) event.item;
		event.gc.setForeground(colorProvider.getForeground(item.getData(), event.index));
		Rectangle rect = item.getTextBounds(event.index);
		event.gc.drawString(item.getText(event.index), rect.x-1, rect.y); // Out-by-one x pixel!
	}

}

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• java
• SWT