[news.eclipse.platform] Re: busyCursorWhile with disabled cancel button

[Ben Vitale <ben.vitale@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Opened 189739

Boris Bokowski wrote:
> I don't think there is API for this, but you could certainly implement 
> something like this yourself.  Feel free to file a bugzilla with an 
> enhancement request, we might be able to add this for 3.4.
>
> Boris
>
> "Ben Vitale" <ben.vitale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:f31u1k$14s$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I've found IProgressService.busyCursorWhile(..) to be extremely useful. 
> > But in most cases, I'm not able to actually cancel the operation that is 
> > executing.  I just want to show the busy cursor, then show the "Operation 
> > in progress.." shortly thereafter.
> >
> > It looks like the "cancellable" flag inside the busyCursorWhile method is 
> > hardcoded to true.
> >
> > Is there any way I can use busyCursorWhile and disable the cancel button?
> >
> > If not, is there an equivalent which grants me that sort of flexibility?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ben