how do i to open an swt wizard or even a dialog from swing???
my whole app freezes up when i get to dialog.open()

public class myFram extends JFrame {
......
.....
	public void someButton_actionPerformed() {

		Shell shell = new Shell();
		Wizard wizard = new MyWizard();
		WizardDialog dialog = new WizardDialog(shell, wizard);
		dialog.setBlockOnOpen(true);

		int returnCode = dialog.open();
		if (returnCode == Dialog.OK)
			System.out.println("Finished!");
		else
			System.out.println("Cancelled");
		shell.dispose();

	}
......
}

if i try creating a new display it throws an exception...
now it just freezes on dialog.open(),
any ideas?

michalt76@hotmail.com wrote:

> how do i to open an swt wizard or even a dialog from swing???
> my whole app freezes ..

That might come in handy as a cooling unit.
...Or did you mean something else?

> if i try creating a new display it throws an exception...
> now it just freezes on dialog.open(),
> any ideas?

1) Name the 'exception' specifically, rather than
make your audience guess.
2) Search the forums where the SWT Experts post.
<http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/index.html>

thanks for the tips andrew,

ok i took off -
//   dialog.setBlockOnOpen(true);
so i can now see my wizard but the background doesn't refresh.
The exception i used to get was SWTException invalid thread access but
it doesn't matter cause i stopped trying to create a display.
i now simply create a new shell with (display)null.
the background swing app doesn't replaint when i move the swt wizard
around and it "plays dead" when i close the wizard until i minimize it
and restore it (from the taskbar) then it pops back up like nothing
happened.

<michalt76@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1132058994.078460.285880@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> how do i to open an swt wizard or even a dialog from swing???

    I'm not sure about this, and maybe someone more knowlegeable can step in 
here, but I think you're "not supposed to" mix Swing and SWT.

    - Oliver