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Fri, 06 February 2009 13:54

Eclipse User

Hi, I'm playing around with the JFace dialogs. The following line
produces a 'discouraged access' warning, so I guess I'm messing around
with something:

Shell shell = Workbench.getInstance().getDisplay().getActiveShell();

Maybe there's a better way?

Felix

Re: Get the shell [message #268373 is a reply to message #268364]

Fri, 06 February 2009 18:10

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

On 2/6/2009 1:54 PM, Felix Dorner wrote:
> Hi, I'm playing around with the JFace dialogs. The following line
> produces a 'discouraged access' warning, so I guess I'm messing around
> with something:
>
> Shell shell = Workbench.getInstance().getDisplay().getActiveShell();
>
> Maybe there's a better way?

The Workbench class is in an internal package and should not be accessed
directly. The correct (API) way to get a reference to the Workbench
isntance is via org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.getWorkbench().

Hope this helps,
Eric

Re: Get the shell [message #268380 is a reply to message #268373]

Sat, 07 February 2009 11:41

Eclipse User

Hi Eric,

yeah this helps of course. I also found that getSite().getShell() would
work.

> The Workbench class is in an internal package and should not be accessed
> directly. The correct (API) way to get a reference to the Workbench
> isntance is via org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.getWorkbench().

Felix

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