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I need to send someone over the network my copy of a file to get some help. This serialized message contains the toString() of an IPath and the file's String content itself. My friend receives it and a compare dialog should be opened on his side if his corresponding IResource for that IPath exists to compare the two copies. He should then be able to click 'OK' or 'Cancel' to choose to replace his copy or not. I believe one of the following would be required: 1. Make CompareDialog API. This would obviously satisfy my use case because I can then do anything I want through subclassing or whatever. 2. Add a new method to CompareUI. Something like... public static int openCompareDialog(CompareEditorInput) ...which returns the integer that's returned by CompareDialog's getReturnCode(). This would also be sufficient for me, I can just check whether it's equal to Window.OK or not. 3. Add a new method to CompareUI. Something like... public static Dialog createCompareDialog(CompareEditorInput) ...which returns the currently internal CompareDialog, but hides the fact that it's internal. This really doesn't add much more than what 2 suggests beyond allowing the developer to choose when to create and/or open the dialog. At the moment, I am working around this limitation by making my own Dialog subclass which simply calls CompareEditorInput's createContents(Composite) to populate the dialog.
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