[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Closing a Modal MessageBox in code

["Steve Northover" <steve_northover@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There is no API and I'm not even sure it's possible on Windows (no Windows
API either).  When you put up a MessageBox, you run a message loop in the
operating system.  How would you call dispose()?

"Vadalus" <vadalus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> HI all,
>
> Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to close a modal messagebox
> (org.eclipse.swt.widgets.MessageBox) from code? I need to be able to close
> down an open modal dialog box in some circumstance in my code (when
> shutting down for example, or a new condition arises which is more
> important than the message in the modal dialog). I could convert this to
> use a modless dialog box but I do need the behaviour of a modal dialog
> 99.9% of the time.
>
> I checked the obvious like 'dispose()' but no much method exists.
>
> Thanks
>
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