In an Eclipse RCP application I was working on recently, I had to implement a TreeViewer with in-place editing feature. It was not easy to find all the information required to implement this, so I thought I would explain it here.
First let’s take a simple example, where hierarchical data is displayed in a tree.
When any item in the tree is double clicked, I want to edit the value in-place.
Here is the code to create this tree, without editing support. I will first create a data model using a Map. To simplify the example, I am assuming only one level of hierarchy.