[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Event Queue?

[Mirco Dunker <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Calling getDisplay() or getCurrent() always returns null.

For example I want to get the events from eclipse. How can I get the 
Display which belongs to eclipse?

Regards,
Mirco


Tom Schindl schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> you can get it from any widget by calling getDisplay() or by calling
> Display#getCurrent() which is a static method.
>
> Tom
>
> Mirco Dunker schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't have much experience in swt, how can i get the current Display?
> > The running Display wasn't created by myself.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mirco
> >
> > Tom Schindl schrieb:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > In SWT you use: Display#addFilter()
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > Mirco Dunker schrieb:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > i want to trace some SWT Events. With AWT its really easy to do this:
> > > >
> > > > Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemEventQueue().push(
> > > >             new EventQueue() {
> > > >     protected void dispatchEvent(AWTEvent event) {
> > > >         //do something
> > > >         super.dispatchEvent(event);
> > > >     }
> > > > });
> > > >
> > > > How can i do this for SWT?
> > > >
> > > > ­Regards,
> > > > Mirco