[SOLVED] SWT Custom Exception handling

[shinobu]

Hi Everyone,

I am struggling to find any information on how to handle Exceptions in SWT in a consistent manner.

What I mean is I want to be able to handle any SWTErrors and SWTExceptions in a consistent manner so that I may either show the errors to the user or log them or whatever. I am worried that some exceptions maybe raised and they are swallowed or unnoticed.

I believe this can be done in Eclipse RCP application by modifying the exception handler class (I haven't done this myself).

I have had a look at this article and it suggests that I should consider all the SWT calls I make - but this does not seem practical and likely that I will overlook some call:

The Java developer's guide to Eclipse By Jim D'Anjou (page 358)
(Accessible by googl'ing: "exception handling in SWT" - look at the 4th result)

I am hoping that there are some resources or standard best practices for this kind of thing (haven't been able to find anything via Google - I also googled this Forum for past posts)

Maybe I just have to do as suggested in the article above?

Please let me know if I am unclear in any way.

Thanks in advance,
Ved

[shinobu]

Sorry I should clarify - my question relates to all Unchecked exceptions (either raised by SWT or raised by other operations called by SWT code that I've written) .

Also It's the 3rd result returned from Google not the 4th.



Sorry I failed to carefully proof read my earlier post.

[shinobu]

I found what I was after - something more general to Exception handling in Java.

Please google
Taming Tiger: Default exception handling in threads
For the first result. This was the article I read.

I then implemented this for SWT.

Hope this helps someone