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class	CallableResult< T >
Static Public Member Functions
static boolean	openInternalBrowser (String urlString, String title)
static boolean	openExternalBrowser (String urlString)
static boolean	isSWT ()
static IViewPart	findView (String id)
static void	runSafeSWTAsync (final Logger log, final Runnable runnable)
static< T > T	runSWTSync (final Callable< T > callable) throws Exception
static void	runSafeSWTSync (final Logger log, final Runnable runnable)
static Display	getDisplay ()
static Shell	getShell ()

Member Function Documentation

static IViewPart de.fu_berlin.inf.dpp.ui.util.SWTUtils.findView ( String id ) [static]

Needs to be called from the SWT-UI thread, otherwise null is returned.

static Display de.fu_berlin.inf.dpp.ui.util.SWTUtils.getDisplay ( ) [static]

Returns the display of the current workbench. Should be used instead of Display#getDefault().

See also:: IWorkbench.getDisplay()

Returns:: the display of the current workbench

static Shell de.fu_berlin.inf.dpp.ui.util.SWTUtils.getShell ( ) [static]

Tries to get a Shell shell} that is centered on the shells of the current Eclipse application.

Should be used instead of Display#getActiveShell().

Returns:: a shell centered on top of the current application or null if no such shell exists or the default display is disposed

static boolean de.fu_berlin.inf.dpp.ui.util.SWTUtils.isSWT ( ) [static]

Crude check whether we are on the SWT thread

static boolean de.fu_berlin.inf.dpp.ui.util.SWTUtils.openExternalBrowser ( String urlString ) [static]

Tries to open the given URL string in the default external browser. The Desktop API is deliberately not used for this because it only works with Java 1.6.

Parameters:

urlString the URL to show as a String

Returns:: true if the browser could be opened, false otherwise

static boolean de.fu_berlin.inf.dpp.ui.util.SWTUtils.openInternalBrowser	(	String	urlString,
		String	title
	)		`[static]`

Tries to open the given URL string in Eclipse's internal browser. However if the user specified in the preferences to use an external browser instead, the external browser is tried to open.

Parameters:

urlString	the URL to show as a String
title	a string displayed in the browsers title area

Returns:: true if the browser could be opened, false otherwise

static void de.fu_berlin.inf.dpp.ui.util.SWTUtils.runSafeSWTAsync	(	final Logger	log,
		final Runnable	runnable
	)		`[static]`

Run the given runnable in the SWT-Thread and log any RuntimeExceptions to the given log.

static void de.fu_berlin.inf.dpp.ui.util.SWTUtils.runSafeSWTSync	(	final Logger	log,
		final Runnable	runnable
	)		`[static]`

Run the given runnable in the SWT-Thread, log any RuntimeExceptions to the given log and block until the runnable returns.

static <T> T de.fu_berlin.inf.dpp.ui.util.SWTUtils.runSWTSync ( final Callable< T > callable ) throws Exception [static]

Runs the given callable in the SWT Thread returning the result of the computation or throwing an exception that was thrown by the callable.

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