Question

I need to create a popup Menu for a Tree in Java SWT. But the menu should only pop up when no items are selected (when I click on a blank space of the TreeViewer). If I now select an item of the tree, I can’t deselect it again. The TreeViewer is inside a Composite.
My first idea was to add a MouseListener to check if no of the Items are selected and call deselectAll(), but event.getSource() only returns the tree.
Any ideas of how to remove an item selection when a blank space is (right-) clicked?

Answer 1

Often, you can deselect by Ctlr-clicking the item.

Another option is to register a listener for mouse clicks, and use the event location to locate the tree item. If this returns null, you can call deselectAll().

But how can you get the TreeViewer from the Tree? Simple: Store the reference in the data property of the tree. Then you can use this code in your event handler:

TreeViewer view = (TreeViewer) event.getSource().getData();