I believe that is a bug that was fixed for 2.0. Can you try running your app in
2.0 and see if the problem is resolved?
On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:10 PM, anton dos santos wrote:
> Hi Greg
>
> I tried the easy way and added a MenuHandler to a custom header like this:
>
> public class TableViewFilterHeader extends TableViewHeader {
>
> private MenuHandler menuHandler = new MenuHandler.Adapter() {
> @Override
> public boolean configureContextMenu(Component component, Menu menu,
> int x, int y) {
>
> Menu.Section menuSection = new Menu.Section();
> menu.getSections().add(menuSection);
> int index = TableViewFilterHeader.this.getHeaderAt(x);
> String name =
> TableViewFilterHeader.this.getTableView().getColumns().get(index).getName();
> Menu.Item whatIsThisMenuItem = new Menu.Item("filter for "+name);
> whatIsThisMenuItem.setAction(new Action() {
> @Override
> public void perform( Component component) {
> System.out.println("FilterAction performed");
> }
> });
>
> menuSection.add(whatIsThisMenuItem);
>
> return false;
> }
> };
>
> public TableViewFilterHeader() {
> setMenuHandler(menuHandler);
> }
>
> It works, when I right mouse click in the header, the menu is displayed and
> then when I click in the menu, menu becomes invisible and header is
> redisplayed.
> When I right mouse click in the header, the menu is displayed and then when I
> left click outside of the table header, menu becomes also invisible and
> header is redisplayed.
> But when right mouse click in the header, the menu is displayed and then when
> I left click inside of the table header, menu becomes also invisible but
> header is not correctly redisplayed (see attachment)
> I am doing this with 1.5.2 and the demo with the Olympic Medals
>
> On 05/01/2011 21:34, Greg Brown wrote:
>> Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking. You can register a mouse button
>> listener on the header and call getHeaderAt() to determine which header was
>> pressed. Then you can call getHeaderBounds() to get that header's bounding
>> area. Finally, you can call mapPointToAncestor() on the TableViewHeader to
>> convert the header bounds to display coordinates for displaying the context
>> menu (you can call getDisplay() on the header to get the display).
>>
>> Let me know how it goes.
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:26 PM, anton dos santos wrote:
>>
>>> Yes you are right :)
>>> To do this I think I need a context menu as described here:
>>> http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/context-menus.html
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Anton
>>> On 05/01/2011 21:06, Greg Brown wrote:
>>>> Well, a ListButton displays a popup, so I think we are probably describing
>>>> the same thing. :-) I have written a similar UI where right-clicking on
>>>> the table header makes a menu popup appear immediately below the header.
>>>> The user can then select one of the values from the menu to filter the
>>>> table contents.
>>>> G
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:00 PM, anton dos santos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> not exactly
>>>>> I want to implement a filter feature: when in a column there are multiple
>>>>> distinct values then a ListButton with these distinct values is displayed
>>>>> in the header and when user select one of the values, only the
>>>>> corresponding rows will be displayed in the table.
>>>>> I am not sure a popup is user friendly in this case
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Anton
>>>>>
>>>>> On 05/01/2011 20:34, Greg Brown wrote:
>>>>>> You are correct - renderers do not support user interaction because they
>>>>>> aren't really there - they are just painted by the skin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you trying to display a popup when the user clicks on the table
>>>>>> header? If so, there are other ways to do this. I can try to put
>>>>>> together a quick example if it would help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> G
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 5, 2011, at 2:30 PM, anton dos santos wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>> I have a TableViewHeader that displays a ListButton, but the
>>>>>>> ListButon is not usable.
>>>>>>> I assume it is because the header is drawn by a "renderer" and not an
>>>>>>> "editor". Right?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is it possible to have a working button or checkbox in a column's
>>>>>>> header ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>> Anton
>>>>
>>
>>
>
> <header.png>
