SWT table: how to make columns as wide as necessary

Question

With Swing this was quite easy: iterate over all rows in a column and search the widest entry. SWT (or Windows?) supports the double click at the separator between table columns, but how to do that with SWT programmatically?

Answer 1

Googling yielded the following:

Try to use TableColumn.pack() as described in http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools/msg60980.html