[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: paintChildren and IProgressMonitor updates

["Koen van Dijken" <kvdijken@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Does that imply that all these processes which do use a progressbar on the 
statusline are working as background jobs? Or are are they doing 
Display.getCurrent().readAndDispatch() at regular intervals? I tried 
readAndDispatch in the paintChildren() method, but that results in rather 
messy displays...

Koen



"Steven Shaw" <steveshaw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Intuitively this seems like an improper place to be updating progress.
> Usually this is done in context to command execution.
>
> Regarding your specific problem, since paintChildren is being executed on
> the UI thread, updating the statusbar is probably doing a 
> Display.asyncExec
> to update meaning it will not spawn execution until the current execution 
> is
> finished before exeucting.
>
> -Steve
>
> "Koen van Dijken" <kvdijken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to update the progressMonitor (message and work) in the statusbar
>> during a call to Figure.paintChildren(). I cannot get it to work however.
>> Nothing is displayed.
>>
>> Is it possible? Did anyone have any luck doing the same?
>>
>> Koen
>>
>>
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