what is difference between ColumnLabelProvider and ITableLabelProvider in Jface tableviewer?

Question

I am working on JFace Tableviewer. I am bit confused in the usage of ColumnLabelProvider and ITableLabelProvider. I am trying to color certain row in the tableviewer(which has 1 column of string and checkbox images in the other 3 columns). I have implemented ITableLabelProvider and colored the row but after that editing support is disabled. So I am confused whether should I use ColumnLabelProvider or ITableLabelProvider?

Can someone suggest me some ideas? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

ITableLabelProvider uses one label provider to provide the labels for all the columns.

ColumnLabelProvider uses a separate label provider for each column. It is intended to be used with TableViewerColumn:

TableViewer viewer = new TableViewer(.....);

TableViewerColumn col1 = new TableViewerColumn(viewer, SWT.LEAD);

col1.setLabelProvider(column label provider for col 1);

col1.setEditingSupport(editing support for col 1);

... repeat for other columns