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In 3.x one was able to keep the application alive without any visible window (see http://lokeshshah.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/tray-icon-in-eclipse-rcp/) to e.g. move the application to the system tray and bring it up once more from there. There are 2 problems: a) WBWRenderer blindly sets the IWindowCloseHandler => one is unable to intercept it and e.g. cancel the closing and simply hiding the shell instead b) PartRenderingEngine someAreVisible() is checking for isVisible so in case there's only an invisible window it will terminate the event loop This is a feature loss when developing pure e4 applications against writing RCP-Apps in 3.x
This makes sense to me...most especially we shouldn't be using the 'visible' flag to control the event loop in any case.
Tom, if I just change the logic to use the TBR rather than the visible flag do you think that would cover off the issues ??
probably yes - if you attach a patch I can take a closer look
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