[news.eclipse.platform] Re: how to determine programmatically if auto-bu

[Edoardo Comar <edoardoATenigmatecDOTnet@xxxxxxx>]

thanks a lot.
BTW,
What environment needs to be set up to browse the tests ?
the instruction on the download page tell about how to RUN them, but I'm 
interested in kind of creating binary projects with linked content for them.

DJ Houghton wrote:
> We do the same in our tests. Check out:
>
> project: org.eclipse.core.tests.harness
> class/method: EclipseWorkspaceTest#waitForBuild
>
> Edoardo Comar wrote:
>
> > my plugin tests run with the default auto-build enabled.
> > i often do
> > 1-  resource changes
> > 2 - then need to wait for the build to finsih
> > 3 - check the results.
> >
> > I mimic 2 by manually invoking a build of the workspace
> > but I really would like just to wait until auto-build is completed.
> >
> > how can I check that ?
> >
> > do I need to temporarily add a resource listener that waits for an 
> > event of type POST_BUILD or is there a more straightforward way ?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Edo