[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: UI controls friendly with the workspace

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrei,

Couldn't you just pull the data out of the controls and pass it to the 
background job?  I suppose you could use syncExec, but that seems kind 
of gross...


Andrei Serea wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have came across a problem and I bet I'm not the only one: while creating 
> a wizard for my own type of project, doing the usual workspace work (create 
> the project and stuff), I wanted to access some controls to get info out of 
> them...and surprize: invalid thread access.
> Now, I have studied the way that the New Java Project Wizard does it and I 
> saw that it uses some cool controls that store the info in a workspace 
> thread friendly object (besides the widget itself). The only problem is that 
> these classes are internal.. :(( (I'm talking about all the classes that 
> extend org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.dialogfields.DialogField).
> Here's the question: does anybody know about some controls that do the same 
> but that are public???
>
> PS. If you ask me, I can't find a bloody reason for those classes to be 
> internal in JDT...but that's just my two cents... 
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