Re: [platform-ui-dev] Opening a dialog from a UI-triggered action

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

See org.eclipse.jface.window.Window#open
(or the JFace Dialog subclass).  These questions are best asked on
the eclipse.platform newsgroup.

John

"Ploett, Norbert" <norbert.ploett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject	[platform-ui-dev] Opening a dialog from a UI-triggered action

Hi folks,
 
I have an action which is triggered from
a context menu, consequently it is running on the main thread.
 
During the work of the action I need additional
user input so I thought to open a "Dialog". I created a new org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell(SWT.APPLICATION_MODAL),
filled it with all the required controls and made a call to open() to show
it. 
 
Now what I would need is a blocking call
to open which returns only when the user has made his interaction (e.g.
selecting an entry in a list)
But I can't figure out how to get a blocking
call. Stopping the thread will obviously not work because it is the main
thread so the UI would be entirely stopped.
 
Any hints how I can go about this?
 
 
Thanks,
 
 
Norbert Ploett
 
 
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