SWT Table.setLinesVisible(false) does not seem to work on Windows 7

Question

Our company is trying to move everyone from Window XP to Windows 7, so I\'m testing some of the home-grown SWT applications to make sure that they still work on Windows 7. M

Answer 1

Try adding the following listener to your table:

      //Assuming your table is named 'table' and 'backgroundColor' is the
      //color you're using to paint it's background.
      table.addListener(SWT.EraseItem, new Listener() {
        @Override
        public void handleEvent(Event event) {
          event.gc.setBackground(backgroundColor);
          event.gc.fillRectangle(event.getBounds());
        }
      });

This should solve your problems with vertical lines. Here's how it looks on my example table:

Without the listener (notice the vertical lines, they are not black in my case, they're gray..but they're still visible):

And now with the listener added: