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

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Well you could try. If you need immediate help you can use IRC 
(#eclipse-dev at irc.freenode.net, nick: tomsontom), I'm online today in 
the late afternoon. So if you ping have snippet post it to this thread 
and then ping me on IRC.

Greetings from the western part of Austria :-)

Tom

Fabian Zeindl schrieb:
> 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


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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