How to set JFace ListViewer size?

Question

OK - I give up.

How can I set width and height of a JFace ListViewer?

This should be self-evident but can't seem to find anything and there's no obvious way of doing it looking at the methods of the class.

Tried this with no luck:

myListViewer.getControl().setSize(1000, 1000);

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

You don't set the size explicitly. you use layouts instead. Layouts manage the size and position of your widgets in a container. Read this eclipse article that will help you understand SWT layouts.

Answer 2

To do this you can set a layoutdata to your List associated with the ListViewer

myListViewer.getControl().setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.FILL_HORIZONTAL));

to resize the control to fill the cell horizontally and to fit the remaining horizontal space.