[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: StatusBar .setMessage method availabilit

[Andre Oosthuizen <andreo@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,

I'm using Eclipse 3.1M4 and Eclipse 3.1 final and in both versions I 
haven't encountered the problem you describe. The only time my status 
bar is cleared is when I close my welcome/intro page.

Martin Coetzee wrote:
> Thanx for the help. I still had a problem though with thread access, and 
> when trying to access the manager, an illegal thread access exception 
> was thrown, so I got around it by using the 
> Display.getDefault().asyncExec(). Thanx for the help. Just another 
> thing, how do you keep your status bar up to date, the problem I'm 
> facing is that as soon as I move onto another perspective, the details 
> on the status bar get's removed? How did you hack this one?
>
> Thanx
> Martin Coetzee