Description Tom Crockett 2007-04-19 17:52:49 EDT

SWTEventDispatcher.dispatchMouseReleased() looks like this:

public void dispatchMouseReleased(org.eclipse.swt.events.MouseEvent me) {
	receive(me);
	if (mouseTarget != null) {
		mouseTarget.handleMouseReleased(currentEvent);
	}
	releaseCapture();
	receive(me);
}

Because of that call to releaseCapture(), it doesn't matter if you call consume() on the event inside handleMouseReleased. In the GEF subclass, DomainEventDispatcher, it looks like this:

public void dispatchMouseReleased(org.eclipse.swt.events.MouseEvent me) {
	if (!editorCaptured) {
>		super.dispatchMouseReleased(me);
>		if (draw2dBusy())
>			return;
	}
	if (okToDispatch()) {
		setRouteEventsToEditor(false);
		domain.mouseUp(me, viewer);
		updateFigureUnderCursor(me);
	}
}

draw2dBusy() never returns true after a mouse release, so the method will always continue and get propagated to the GraphicalEditor. If I have a figure on top of the graphical editor which is supposed to intercept all events, I don't want that to happen.