[riena-dev] workbench job equivalent?

["Todd Lee" <Todd.Lee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I’m fairly new to RCP development, and have been working on a small standalone client application for use by our customers.

As this is a tool designed for ‘non-technical’ users, we’re trying to get away from the IDE feel of typical RCPs (we ship a separate product for technical users on the eclipse platform) so I was very excited to come across the Riena project, as it’s exactly what our project management is looking for
(they’re going to be even happy with your plan to roll out detached views J )

 

So as I work towards porting my existing RCP, I’ve run into a snag. My contributed viewparts and commands seem to show up as expected in the new navigation paradigm, but the handler (extends AbstractHandler, implements IHandler) that I have contributed to handle a command isn’t working. The command wraps a potentially long-running task (it updates the model which serves as the input to the table view) in a workbench job with a progress monitor as shown below:

 

<snip>

            // get the workbench view and window handles

            final IWorkbenchPart part = HandlerUtil.getActivePartChecked(event);

            final IWorkbenchWindow win = HandlerUtil

                    .getActiveWorkbenchWindowChecked(event);

 

            // wrap the workbench job in a try/catch block

            try {

                win.run(true, true, new IRunnableWithProgress() {

 

                    public void run(IProgressMonitor monitor)

                            throws InvocationTargetException,

                            InterruptedException {

 

</snip>

 

Stepping through, it seems that creating the new IRunnableWithProgress bails, because the call to ModalContext.run() encounters an error with the progress monitor. The monitor used is a StatusLineManager, and it seems that the underlying statusLine is null. Now in my RCP, I initialized the status line in the ApplicationWorkbenchWindowAdvisor, do I have to do something similar to get things working with Riena?

 

As an aside, I’m wondering if this is the best way to handle long-running tasks that update UI components in Riena? Is there another method that you’d recommend? I’ve read over the getting started docs regarding injection of services etc… but I haven’t seen anything specifically related to local task/job management for a simple client app, so I’m defaulting to the ‘workbench way’. Alternate suggestions are welcome.

 

Thanks,

Todd

 

Todd Lee

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Software Tools Development

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