well, as it always happens, just after I posted the comment – I realized that maybe I should check how the code works on my newer trial of Eclipse 3.3 M5. I was using Eclipse 3.2

Naturally enough, it works fine on the latest release :-)

thanks for your time, and suggestion too.

Evan

I don’t really know how expanding and filtering work together.

In eclipse-jmx, I extended PatternFilter so that nodes were revealed (and thus “expanded”) if any of their ancestors were matching the filter text. See MBeanExplorer and search for PatternFilter to see how I made it work.

hope it may help you, jeff

thanks for the very informative posting … it was exactly what I needed for a current project.

One point I’m having a problem with is getting the tree to auto expand as I’m searching.

I’ve set the viewer with setAutoExpandLevel(TreeViewer.ALL_LEVELS) – which makes the initial tree expand ok, but after a search commences, the tree seems to revert to only showing the top level nodes.

Are you aware of any post-filter event that I need to handle and then expand the tree myself ?

Any suggestions ?

thanks again, Evan Williams