resize/grow jface treeviewer dynamically

Question

Is it possible to resize/growthe Jface treeviewer dynamically ?

I mean we have a composite and treeviewer has some contents, and user is clicking on the expand button to expand the contents, now parallely can the treeviewer grow ??

Thanks, Sam

Answer 1

You should not "grow" the TreeViewer this way. Imagine the scenario where the TreeViewer is to large to fit on the screen.

The way to go is using a ScrolledComposite that hosts the TreeViewer . This scrolled composite can be set to a default size and will show scrollbars when the content is to large for that size.

Here is a simple example on how to use ScrolledComposite . It looks like this: