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[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Animated message widgets 
Hi,

I think there isn't any. The change happend fairly early somewhere in M4 I think.

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Tom

Daniel Krügler schrieb: 
Hello,

Up to Eclipse 3.2.x the WizardDialog used an animation technique
for warning and error messages via the publicly available class
ImageAndMessageArea. This behaviour was warmly appreciated by our
customers.

As I realized this weekend, in Eclipse 3.3 the class ImageAndMessageArea has been deprecated and the wizard does no longer animate those messages.

I wonder concerning this decision: I understand that ImageAndMessageArea
has been deprecated, but as far as I understand this is related to
the fact, that there had been some resource leak issues because of the
internally used class FieldDecorationRegistry (Please correct me, if I'm wrong). But I don't understand, why this leads to an overall deprecation of ImageAndMessageArea itself. Worse, the current comment does not provide a hint, which alternative class could be used instead.

Animated messages are a cute method to inform the user without disturbing her current workflow. Can someone give me a pointer,
which class should be used in 3.2.x, which can also be used in 3.3?

I also would like to enable animated error messages in 3.3 wizards.
Can someone give me a hint, how to realize that without reimplementing
the complete WizardDialog class?

Thanks,

Daniel Krügler