minor problem with abstract dialog class

[bzeiss]

i have a minor problem with the dialog class. i have created a super class called "CustomDialog" which has some basic elements of the dialog class. for example, it contains the open method or the shell attribute. however, since the shell attribute is part of the super class, the derived concrete dialog class doesn't work properly anymore in designer (the shell is marked red). i can work around this problem by added a temporary shell attribute in the derived class which i comment out when finished with editing. are you planning to support this?

[Eric Clayberg]

i have a minor problem with the dialog class. i have created a super class called "CustomDialog" which has some basic elements of the dialog class. for example, it contains the open method or the shell attribute. however, since the shell attribute is part of the super class, the derived concrete dialog class doesn't work properly anymore in designer (the shell is marked red). i can work around this problem by added a temporary shell attribute in the derived class which i comment out when finished with editing. are you planning to support this?

Designer supports visual inheritance for SWT Shells and Composites only. We do not support visual inheritance of dialogs or app windows.

An easy solution is to create your dialog as a subclass of Shell.