[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: None-UI thread model updates and Display.ge

["Randy Hudson" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Exactly what I do.  In my property listeners I create a runnable to handle 
> the call to refreshVisuals().  Actually my runnable is a class member and 
> not a local variable.
>
> I pass my runnable into a display I get by calling
>
> getViewer().getControl().getDisplay();
>
> I use syncExec
>
> CL

Anytime you do something like that you should catch any NPEs.  It is 
possible that the editor gets closed, or the editpart is removed from the 
viewer, etc. after the background event has been dispatched but before your 
code runs.