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Bug 326765

Summary:	Please make Shell.window a public field
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Prakash Rangaraj <prakash>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	skovatch
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:

Description Prakash Rangaraj

2010-10-01 07:21:13 EDT

I've seen the Control.view made as public along with proper comments saying that it should not be used. Will it be possible to make Shell.window public with similar comments?

It would be really helpful for me in fixing Bug# 201696. Right now, I'm using reflection to access that field (patch available in that bug).

Comment 1 Scott Kovatch

2010-10-01 12:35:34 EDT

You can always get at the NSWindow of a Control by calling view.window(), which is public on NSWindow. I'd like to avoid making any more fields public. If it returns null the NSView hasn't been parented to a NSWindow yet. 

All of the usual caveats apply there about accessing the 'view' field, but at this point I highly doubt we would rename or otherwise change that.

Comment 2 Scott Kovatch

2010-10-01 12:36:09 EDT

BTW, the 'view' field of a Shell is the content view of the window, so it will always be set.

Comment 3 Prakash Rangaraj

2010-10-01 13:07:55 EDT

Thanks Scott. view.window() works fine for me