Re: [e4-dev] E4 product export problems

[Remy Suen <remysuen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Parvez Ahmad <parvez12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all great men,

Please don't forget there are females in the Eclipse community. :)

> 1) I want to show a message box using below code.
> My code is not getting called from a COMMAND/Handler, but is a
> code(from another project in workspace) that is getting injected
> using dependency injection.
> So how to get the shell in E4, in below case:-
> MessageDialog.openInformation(shell , "About","");

I'm not sure about your second problem, but if you want a shell then you should be able to inject it.

@Execute
void execute(@Named(IServiceConstants.ACTIVE_SHELL) Shell shell) {
/* ... */
}

@Execute
void execute(MWindow window) {
Shell shell = (Shell) window.getShell();
/* ... */
}

Regards,
Remy

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Remy Suen
Eclipse Platform/UI Committer
IBM Ottawa
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