SWT table header and table grid colour

[Midworld]

I started to build a small GUI using SWT Designer. On a tabFolder with tabItems I placed a table with three columns. I can changed the background colour of the tabFolder with no problems, but I can neither change the background colour of the table header nor the colour of the table grid.

Please, can anyone help me?

[Eric Clayberg]

I started to build a small GUI using SWT Designer. On a tabFolder with tabItems I placed a table with three columns. I can changed the background colour of the tabFolder with no problems, but I can neither change the background colour of the table header nor the colour of the table grid.

SWT does not offer properties to set the color of a table header or grid.

[Midworld]

Thanks a lot for the response, but could you tell me why SWT is not offering that functionality?

[Eric Clayberg]

Thanks a lot for the response, but could you tell me why SWT is not offering that functionality?

Presumably because it isn't offered by the underlying OS. SWT uses native widgets for most widgets (when it can), and is constrained by the capabilities of the underlying OS implementation.

If the underlying OS does expose that capability and SWT does not, it probably means that no one asked for that feature yet (in which case you should open a feature request on the Eclipse Bugzilla system).

For a more detailed answer, you should address SWT runtime and behavioral questions to the Eclipse SWT newsgroup.