[news.eclipse.platform] Infinite Nested Property

[Luca Baldi <luca.baldi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I have a list of properties in a Properties View for an Editor object, 
and one of the properties is a reference to a Label object.
The list of properties for the Label object include a propery which is a 
reference to the Editor object.
You can probably see where I am heading to. When I expand the Label 
property, I get a list containing the Editor, which I can expand and I 
get a list containing the Label, which I can expand and I get a list 
containing the Editor, and so on and so forth.

Editor
- ...
- ...
+ Label - ...
        - ...
        + Editor - ...
                 - ...
                 + Label - ...
                         - ...
                         + Editor - ...    and so on


How can I avoid this??
What I want is either to hide the property depending how far down the 
tree structure it is.

Editor
- ...
- ...
+ Label - ...
        - ...
        ( no Editor )

Or make sure the property is not expandable

Editor
- ...
- ...
+ Lable - ...
        - ...
        - Editor


I have a PropertyDescriptor object both for a Label and an Editor, 
overriding the method createPropertyEditor(Composite parent). The parent 
is a reference to the Tree containing all the properties or at least I 
thought it was. All I can get from it is a list of TreeItems ( 
properties ) that belong to the current node. I can't seem to be able to 
get up the tree structure to find out whether a Label ( or Editor ) 
TreeItem is child of an Editor ( or Label ) which is in turn a child itself.

Another approach I tried is to have a PropertySource object, which can 
remove the Label ( or Editor ) PropertyDescriptor, but again I can't 
find a way to determine how far down the tree structure the node is.

Does anybody have any suggestion as to how to solve the problem??

Thanks

Luca