[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: When can setFocus return false?

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michal Dobisek wrote:
> If I get it correctly, the lesson learn is that no "rich" (i.e. 
> involving unknown listeners) code should be executer directly from SWT 
> event handlers, but rather display.asyncExec should be used to run them 
> with "clean" stack trace. Is this correct?

Yes - long running operations should generally be run on a different 
thread and then use Display.syncExec() or Display.asyncExec() to update 
the UI.

Eric