[news.eclipse.tools] Re: TypeSelector Dialog

[Daniel Megert <daniel.megert@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Ebraert wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to integrate a TypeSelector Dialog such as the one you can find
> doin the following:
> - In a Java Package, right click on the package
> - select 'new' > 'Class'
> - When one clicks on the 'Browse Button' for specifying the SuperType of
> the new class, he gets presented a TypeSelector Dialog.
>
> That is the one I'd like to use in my Eclipse plugin.
@see org.eclipse.jdt.ui.JavaUI#createTypeDialog

> I found a class TypeSelectionDialog. Problem is that this class is not in
> the org.eclipse.ui.dialogs package but in the
> org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.dialogs package. Does this mean that one
> should not use this?
Exactly. Types in packages which contain *.internal.* in their name can 
change at any time.

> Well, I tried to include all needed packages in my project (buth imports
> and classpath adaptions). But when running the plugin, and clicking on the
> 'Browse' Button, it fails with an error message:
> Unhandled exception caught in event loop.
> Reason:
> org/eclipse/jdt/internal/ui/dialogs/TypeSelectionDialog
>
> Can somebody help?
If you need stuff from the JDT UI plug-in you have to add this plug-in 
to list of required plug-in in you plugin.xml.

> Another thing. The Java Docs (from the Eclipse help) seem not to be
> correct concerning this. TypeFilteringDialog and TypeSelectionDialog got
> mixed up in the documentation.
>  
Can you be more specific?

BTW: Java related questions are better asked on eclipse.tools.jdt

HTH
Dani