Bug 246874 - [Viewers] ContainerCheckedTreeViewer should be moved to JFace
Summary: [Viewers] ContainerCheckedTreeViewer should be moved to JFace
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2008-09-10 11:16 EDT by Jake CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:15 EDT (History)
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Description Jake CLA 2008-09-10 11:16:01 EDT 
Build ID: I20080617-2000

Steps To Reproduce:
ContainerCheckedTreeViewer is currently in the org.eclipse.ui.dialogs package.  This class is very general use, extends directly from a JFace viewer (CheckboxTreeViewer) and has no dependencies on Eclipse APIs that are not included in SWT and JFace.  Therefore, it should be moved to the org.eclipse.jface.viewers package where it can be utilized by standalone SWT/JFace applications.

More information:
I see this as a very easy move since it does not force any other classes, which may not belong there as obviously as this one does, to move to JFace.  I currently have a standalone SWT/JFace application using only jars for:
swt
org.eclipse.core.commands
org.eclipse.equinox.common
org.eclipse.jface
org.eclipse.osgi

Extracting ContainerCheckedTreeViewer and its two inner classes, placing them in a new jar and including that jar in the build path is sufficient to use this class in the standalone app.
Comment 1 Jake CLA 2008-09-11 09:27:09 EDT 
Changed severity to enhancement.
Comment 2 Boris Bokowski CLA 2008-09-12 12:29:18 EDT 
We're not very happy with this class right now (see bug 170521 and bug 17907) so I would be hesitant to move it somewhere else without having those issues addressed.
Comment 3 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-26 09:55:57 EST 
Hitesh is now responsible for watching bugs in the [Viewers] component area.
Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:15:55 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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