Databinding-Caret Position in Text Widget

[octavio]

I'm testing databinding using a composite that works similar to the web demo: one tableViewer and a form to update fields.
Everything works just like the web demo, except that after each keystroke while updating the text widget the caret is automatically placed in the first position, so it seems like I'm writting from right to left. The text widget has the default orientation(left-to-right).

I changed the update strategy to SWT.FocusOut rather than SWT.Modify. The table now gets updated when the text widget looses focus, which is good... but I loose the visual eye-candy of watching the table update as I type on the text widget.

My beans provide propertyChangeSupport (add/remove propertyChangeListener methods and a firePropertyChange method) and do not extend ModelObject.

My theory is that a key stroke in the text widget is updating the table. The change in the table is updating the bean. The change in the bean is triggering an update on the text widget, which causes the caret to move to position 1 (or zero).

Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?

Octavio

[Eric Clayberg]

Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?

No idea. Your theory may be correct, but I have never seen that happen before.

General questions about the Eclipse Data Binding API are best directed to the Eclipse newsgroups.

[octavio]

OK... I called initDatabindings() twice, and that caused the problem.

By the way... I have the second edition of your book and I've learned a lot from it. RCP would have been very difficult without it. But, as you can tell, I need the third edition.

The book has been very helpful and SWT Designer is an extraordinary tool.

Your work is appreciated...

Thanks,
Octavio

[Eric Clayberg]

By the way... I have the second edition of your book and I've learned a lot from it. RCP would have been very difficult without it. But, as you can tell, I need the third edition.

The third edition will be out in a few months and will target Eclipse 3.4.