Java tutorial
/* * Create a virtual table and add 1000 entries to it every 500 ms. * * For a list of all SWT example snippets see * http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/dev.html#snippets */ import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Random; import org.eclipse.swt.SWT; import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Event; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Listener; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Table; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TableItem; public class Snippet151 { static int[] data = new int[0]; public static void main(String[] args) { final Display display = new Display(); Shell shell = new Shell(display); shell.setLayout(new FillLayout()); final Table table = new Table(shell, SWT.BORDER | SWT.VIRTUAL); table.addListener(SWT.SetData, new Listener() { public void handleEvent(Event e) { TableItem item = (TableItem) e.item; int index = table.indexOf(item); item.setText("Item " + data[index]); } }); Thread thread = new Thread() { public void run() { int count = 0; Random random = new Random(); while (count++ < 500) { if (table.isDisposed()) return; // add 10 random numbers to array and sort int grow = 10; int[] newData = new int[data.length + grow]; System.arraycopy(data, 0, newData, 0, data.length); int index = data.length; data = newData; for (int j = 0; j < grow; j++) { data[index++] = random.nextInt(); } Arrays.sort(data); display.syncExec(new Runnable() { public void run() { if (table.isDisposed()) return; table.setItemCount(data.length); table.clearAll(); } }); try { Thread.sleep(500); } catch (Throwable t) { } } } }; thread.start(); shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed() || thread.isAlive()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); } display.dispose(); } }