Setting focus cell in TableViewer

I would like to find a way to set focus to a cell in a multi-column table
by an internal Process other than the activation events listed in the code
below. One would expect that the setFocusCell(viewerCell) from
TableViewerFocusCellManager from SWTFocusCellManager would get the job
done, but it is not visible.

Suggestions for setting focus and highlighting a cell based on an internal
event?

Here's the set-up code for the TableViewer and related entities:

tableViewer = new TableViewer(parent, SWT.MULTI | SWT.H_SCROLL | 
SWT.V_SCROLL 
| SWT.BORDER | SWT.FULL_SELECTION); 
final Table table = tableViewer.getTable(); 
final TableViewerFocusCellManager mgr = new 
TableViewerFocusCellManager(tableViewer, new 
FocusCellOwnerDrawHighlighter(tableViewer)); 
final ColumnViewerEditorActivationStrategy actSupport = new 
ColumnViewerEditorActivationStrategy(tableViewer) { 
@Override 
protected boolean isEditorActivationEvent 
(ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent event) { 
return event.eventType == 
ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.TRAVERSAL 
|| event.eventType == 
ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.MOUSE_CLICK_SELECTION 
|| event.eventType == 
ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.KEY_PRESSED 
&& (event.keyCode == SWT.CR || event.character == ' ') 
|| event.eventType == 
ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.PROGRAMMATIC; 
} 
}; 

TableViewerEditor.create(tableViewer, mgr, actSupport, 
ColumnViewerEditor.TABBING_HORIZONTAL 
| ColumnViewerEditor.TABBING_MOVE_TO_ROW_NEIGHBOR | 
ColumnViewerEditor.TABBING_VERTICAL 
| ColumnViewerEditor.KEYBOARD_ACTIVATION); 

TableViewerColumn column; 
final int[] styles = { SWT.LEAD, SWT.LEAD, SWT.LEAD, SWT.LEAD, SWT.LEAD, 
SWT.LEAD, SWT.LEAD}; 
for (int columnIndex = 0; columnIndex columnIndex++) { 
column = new TableViewerColumn(tableViewer, styles[columnIndex]); 
// etc. for each column, specifying setLabelProvider and 
setEditingSupport