[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Calling WorkspaceModifyOperation from a non-

[Michael Valenta <Michael_Valenta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kathy,

The WorkspaceModifyOperation is really just a convenience class for 
calling the IWorkspace#run method. This is described in the following
article (just search for IWorkspace):

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Concurrency/jobs-api.html

Michael

Kathy Chan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to be able to put multiple operatoins in a 
> WorkspaceModifyOperation so that events which typically occur as a  result 
> of workspace changes (such as the firing of resource deltas, performance of 
> autobuilds, calling validators etc.) are deferred until the outermost 
> operation has successfully completed.  Currently, the 
> WorkspaceModifyOperation is in the org.eclipse.ui.actions plugin.  However, 
> I would like to be able to do my operations in a non-UI plugin.  Is there a 
> way I could do it?  What shoudl I be calling to achieve the same effect as 
> putting the operation in a WorkspaceModifyOperation but would not pull in 
> the UI dependency?
>
> Regards,
> Kathy Chan