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We are running into all sorts of automated testing problems, because various components pop up modal dialogs. When this happens the testcase just hangs, since there is no user there that can respond to it. To make our product more testable, there should be a global preference (or environment variable) that all components check, and when set, they don't pop up modal dialogs. This would be a special setting that we would use when running automated tests, and wouldn't normally be turned on when a user was using Eclipse.
Alternatively, we could have our own special version of jface Dialog that APT shut s down automatically. OR, we run a special thread that closes any open dialog box it finds withing 500ms.
My last comment may need some explanation :-) I was referring to an internal tool we use in IBM. A general Eclipse solution would be good, as Gary suggests.
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
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