Comments on: Am I The Last ??

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:18:40 +0000

Hi Remy,

Thanks for this concrete example.

Manu

Remy Chi Jian Suen — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:05:45 +0000

It's all over the place Manuel, even the people on the Platform falls into this trap at times. For a concrete example, take a look at bug 250048.

Manuel — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:43:28 +0000

The Display.getDefault() method returns the first DIsplay created or creates a new one if it doesn’t exist.

In an Eclipse environment it doesn’t guaranty that the returned display is the Workbench’s one so you can’t rely on this method.

I haven’t yet encounter a concrete case where it can cause problems but I’am pretty sure such cases exists … Anyone with such an example ?

Manu

Nicolas Bihan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:28:40 +0000

You’re not the last

Thanks for the tip.
I’m wondering what’s the risk to use Display.getDefault() ?

Manuel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:35:08 +0000

Hi Philk,

You are right, I forgot to mention that I was using Display.getDefault in plugins contributing to the Workbench.

Manu

philk — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:46:27 +0000

You are talking about applications that use the Workbench. Otherwise its perfectly ok to use Display.getDefault().