[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Content provider with a long loading tim

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

- DeferredContentProvider
- Fetch the Data into an Collection (outside to UI-Thread e.g. using
  BusyCursor or IProgressService) and pass this list to the viewer
  the content provider is then a simply ArrayContentProvider

Tom

André Ribeiro schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a tree that uses a content provider to be populated.
> The content provider is getting the data from a remote database (using
> EclipseLink, over the network), and so is a bit long operation.
> When this loading is happening my RCP is completely blocked.
> 
> Could anybody suggest me the correct way to do this operation?
> 
> I though of eclipse.jobs and monitors, is it an (/the most) appropriate
> solution?
> 
> Cheers,
> André


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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