JFace provider property editor suggestion

[dfayerma]

When editing JFace viewers, the property editor allows double clicking on the
provider properties to create new provider classes as an inner class.
That is very convenient but most of the times the providers will be defined in a separate classes and reused between UI components.

It would be great if the provider property editor had an ellipses button to pick a provider class from the list of classes visible from the project and implementing appropriate interface.

[Eric Clayberg]

When editing JFace viewers, the property editor allows double clicking on the provider properties to create new provider classes as an inner class. That is very convenient but most of the times the providers will be defined in a separate classes and reused between UI components. It would be great if the provider property editor had an ellipses button to pick a provider class from the list of classes visible from the project and implementing appropriate interface.

Done. This is now available in the current v2.1.1 build.

[dfayerma]

I appears that the new selection dialog for labelProvider property incorrectly filters avaliable classes to descendants of LabelProvider class only.
I should include all classes implementing ILabelProvider interface.

The content provider correctly filters on the appropriate IContentProvider interface.

Otherwise this new feature works perfectly, exactly how one would expect

[admin]

I appears that the new selection dialog for labelProvider property incorrectly filters avaliable classes to descendants of LabelProvider class only.
I should include all classes implementing ILabelProvider interface.

Agree with small change.
May be it is better to show descendants of ITableLabelProvider as label providers for TableViewer and ILabelProvider for tree's and list's?

[dfayerma]

May be it is better to show descendants of ITableLabelProvider as label providers for TableViewer and ILabelProvider for tree's and list's?

Makes sence.

[admin]

Yes will find this change in new build.

[Eric Clayberg]

Yes will find this change in new build.

This is now available in the latest v2.1.1 update.