[news.eclipse.platform] Re: test swt/jface dialog without rcp runtime?

[Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ceeper wrote:
> I am developing an swt/jface dialog in a rcp plugin. For 
> developing/testing my need is to start this dialog without the need to 
> start the whole eclipse application. I simply added a pubic static void 
> main() to the dialog, but got eclipse runtime problem when starting this 
> dialog out of the eclipse.
> The dialog references classes from another rcp plugin. This plugin 
> internally uses eclipse/java preferences and throws an exception when 
> instantiating the preference classes.
>
> Main problem i think is the main method, which doesn't initialize 
> eclipse runtime. I also reference another plugin (eclipse project), the 
> classpath is okay, but not the runtime environment.
>
> Question: is there a simple way to initialize eclipse runtime and to 
> avoid the described problem. My need is a development testing iteration. 
> The solution should simply work and needs not to be a clean way.
>
> The only alternative i currently see, is to create a new product 
> configuration. Thats too much effort for simple testing, isn't it?
>
> Any ideas?

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