When to run SWTResourceManager.dispose()?

[riz1ali]

Hi,

When is the best time to run SWTResourceManager.dispose()?

Should it be before the shell is disposed or before the display is disposed or when the shellClosed(ShellEvent) is fired?

Thanks.

[Eric Clayberg]

It doesn't really matter as long as you are done with all the cached resources.

Since we cache SWT resources and return the same instance when the app asks for a resource with the same parameters (for example, the same image), the only absolutely safe point is the end of the application.

But this means that the dispose() method is just a formality since the OS will free all the resources on process termination anyway.