When creating TableViewer use SWT.FULL_SELECTION style.
There is a simple runable code. It behaves exactly as you posted, the selection is being changed, but when you use the commented TableViewer constructor, it works for me.
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ArrayContentProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelectionChangedListener;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.LabelProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.SelectionChangedEvent;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredSelection;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TableViewer;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
public class TestCase {
private static List<String> model = new ArrayList<String>();
private static TableViewer viewer;
public static void main(String[] args) {
final Display display = new Display();
final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
// viewer = new TableViewer(shell, SWT.SINGLE | SWT.FULL_SELECTION | SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.VIRTUAL);
viewer = new TableViewer(shell, SWT.SINGLE | SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.VIRTUAL);
viewer.getTable().setHeaderVisible(true);
viewer.getTable().setLinesVisible(true);
viewer.setUseHashlookup(true);
viewer.setContentProvider(ArrayContentProvider.getInstance());
viewer.setLabelProvider(new LabelProvider());
model.add("element2");
model.add("element1");
model.add("element0");
viewer.setInput(model);
viewer.setSelection(new StructuredSelection(model.get(1)));
viewer.addSelectionChangedListener(new ISelectionChangedListener() {
@Override
public void selectionChanged(SelectionChangedEvent event) {
System.out.println("selection changed");
}
});
addContent();
shell.setSize(400, 400);
shell.open();
while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
display.sleep();
}
}
}
private static void addContent() {
Display.getCurrent().timerExec(2000, new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
model.add(0, "element" + model.size());
viewer.refresh();
addContent();
}
});
}
}