JFace ListViewer change selection on right click

Asked Mar 21 '17 at 14:46

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I already have a working ListViewer with items in it and a working context menu.

However when I right-click on the ListViewer the context menu opens without changing the active selection to the item that has been right-clicked. For example, if I have 3 items and the first one is currently selected, no matter where I right-click the selection will not change. What I intend is that when the first item is currently selected and I right-click the third item then the third item should get selected (resulting in the context menu referring to the third item).

I already found an answer that deals with this problem (although it is for a TreeViewer it should work similarly for a ListViewer), but the solution (using CursorLocation) seems very dirty. Here's the question/answer I mentioned: Jface TreeViewer add right click menu, depending on clicked node

Is there a more elegant way to also trigger a new selection on right-click?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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asked Mar 21 '17 at 14:46

Max N.

On which platform do you see this behavior? – Rüdiger Herrmann Mar 21 '17 at 16:00
I'm seeing this behavior in an e4 application. Or did you mean my OS? In that case Windows 10. – Max N. Mar 22 '17 at 07:26

JFace ListViewer change selection on right click

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