org.eclipse.nebula.widgets.nattable.edit

Class ActiveCellEditorRegistry

java.lang.Object

org.eclipse.nebula.widgets.nattable.edit.ActiveCellEditorRegistry

Deprecated.

Storing the editor in a global registry has certain drawbacks as outlined in the documentation and the bug report. In order to resolve that the active editor is now an instance field of the table. The methods provided in here to register or retrieve the editor are available on the table itself. Therefore this registry is obsolete and should not be used any more.

@Deprecated
public class ActiveCellEditorRegistry
extends Object

This class is used to store the instance of the current active cell editor for inline editing. As the ICellEditor does not know about the NatTable instance it is activated in, and NatTable does not have some kind of global context to register this information to, it is currently not possible to solve this in another way.

On activating a cell editor for inline editing, the activated cell editor will be registered here. If the editor is closed, it needs to unregister itself.

Any position in code that needs to be aware of an open cell editor can request it from here. This is especially necessary for automatic closing of cell editors on other actions, e.g. trying to scroll with an activated editor which should lead to close the editor first.

This can cause serious side effects if you are trying to create a custom editor that is based on NatTable as editor control. This needs to be solved with some kind of NatTable context where such instance can be registered (e.g. Dependency Injection) and therefore will be addressed in a future architecture design.

Author:

Dirk Fauth

See Also:

bug 392535

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ActiveCellEditorRegistry() Deprecated.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static ICellEditor	getActiveCellEditor() Deprecated. replaced by NatTable.getActiveCellEditor().
static void	registerActiveCellEditor(ICellEditor editor) Deprecated. replaced by firing the CellEditorCreatedEvent
static void	unregisterActiveCellEditor() Deprecated. The explicit unregistering is not needed any more. The instance will automatically be set to null if the editor gets disposed.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ActiveCellEditorRegistry

public ActiveCellEditorRegistry()

Deprecated.

Method Detail

registerActiveCellEditor

@Deprecated
public static void registerActiveCellEditor(ICellEditor editor)

Deprecated. replaced by firing the CellEditorCreatedEvent

Register the given ICellEditor as the current active one.

Parameters:

editor - The editor that should be registered as the current active one.

unregisterActiveCellEditor

@Deprecated
public static void unregisterActiveCellEditor()

Deprecated. The explicit unregistering is not needed any more. The instance will automatically be set to null if the editor gets disposed.

Will unregister the current active cell editor if there is one.

getActiveCellEditor

@Deprecated
public static ICellEditor getActiveCellEditor()

Deprecated. replaced by NatTable.getActiveCellEditor().

Returns:

The current active ICellEditor or null if there is none.