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How to create a dialog with checkboxes that allows multiple selections

Having read this link, I want to create a dialog where I can select multiple items which to be in the form of check boxes. ElementListSelectionDialog doesn't show any elements in the dialog.

final ElementListSelectionDialog dialog = new     ElementListSelectionDialog(PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getDisplay().getActiveShell(), new LabelProvider());
dialog.setElements(new String[] { "1", "2", "3" });
dialog.setTitle("Numbers");
dialog.setMultipleSelection(true);
dialog.setInitialSelections(new String[] { "1", "2", "3" });
dialog.open();

Using the code above, I get the items in the dialog sometimes, but there are two problems:

  1. I only get them sometimes
  2. It is not in the form of checkboxes.

If you know a better way of doing this, please let me know. I really appreciate any help :)

Solution

  • ElementListSelectionDialog does not support check box selection.

    You may be able to use org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.ListSelectionDialog:

    String [] elements = ...

ListSelectionDialog dialog = 
   new ListSelectionDialog(shell, elements, ArrayContentProvider.getInstance(),
            new LabelProvider(), "selection message");

dialog.setTitle("dialog title");

dialog.setInitialSelections(new Object []{....selections});

dialog.open();

Object [] result = dialog.getResult();

    or you can always write your own dialog using CheckboxTableViewer.