[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Windows fires SelectionEvent on tree.set

[Fabian Zeindl <fabian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Schindl schrieb:
> Looks like a timing issue or are do doing something with 
> Display#asyncExec()? From what you say I construct the following.
>
> You've got a TextWidget and TreeWidget and when entry text you are 
> updating the selection in your Tree and the other way round, right?

true.

> I guess we need some code to reproduce this. You should try to write a 
> small snippet you can paste here and we can run.

ok I'll do that. Will you be online again at some time this weekend? 
Unfortunately my solution is due on monday :-/.

greetings / GrÃÃe
fabian

> Tom
>
> Fabian Zeindl schrieb:
> > Another strange problem: When I remove the SelectionListener right 
> > before the setSelection and add it afterwards it still gets called 
> > when calling setSelection. Why is that?
> > I don't know whether this helps, but the SelectionListener gets called 
> > _after_ the method which calls setSelection finished. The method 
> > itself is a ModifyListener.
> >
> > fabian
> >
> > Tom Schindl schrieb:
> > > It is a bug if SWT fires a SelectionEvent when setting a selection 
> > > programmatically!
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > Fabian Zeindl schrieb:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >  for some unknown reason Win32 fires a SelectionEvent when I do 
> > > > tree.setSelection(TreeItem item) where gnu/linux doesn't fire one.
> > > > Is there a reason for this behaviour? Funnily enough, when I change 
> > > > the code to be simpler, Windows doesn't fire an event on setSelection.
> > > > Is this an SWT-Bug?
> > > >
> > > > thanks in advance
> > > > fabian