Bug 87089 [Viewers] LabelProvider.getImage is not invoked after the TreeViewer changes introduced on 24/01/2005
If you compare the versions 1.26 and 1.25 of the method doUpdateItem(Item item, Object element) in org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer, you will notice a change in the way the image of the element is calculated. In 1.25, the image of the Element is set in the "buildLabel" method which doesn't have a special treatment for ITableLabelProvider. In 1.26, if the label provider is a ITableLabelProvider, instead of calling ILabelProvider.getImage(Object), the code always invokes ITableLabelProvider.getColunmImage(Object). This change has broken the icons on one of the EMF generated editors (the mapping editor) as the images I will attach here demostrate.
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/viewers/TreeViewer.java
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	/**
	 * Sets the cell modifier of this tree viewer.
	 * 
	 * @param modifier
	 *            the cell modifier
	 * @since 3.1
	 */
	public void setCellModifier(ICellModifier modifier) {
		treeViewerImpl.setCellModifier(modifier);
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the column properties of this tree viewer. The properties must
	 * correspond with the columns of the tree control. They are used to
	 * identify the column in a cell modifier.
	 * 
	 * @param columnProperties
	 *            the list of column properties
	 * @since 3.1
	 */
	public void setColumnProperties(String[] columnProperties) {
		treeViewerImpl.setColumnProperties(columnProperties);
	}
	
    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * Method declared in AbstractTreeViewer.
     */
    protected void setExpanded(Item node, boolean expand) {
        ((TreeItem) node).setExpanded(expand);
    }