Getting your Eclipse SWT Shell

Eclipse dialogs (MessageDialog, MessageDialogWithToggle, ...) require the SWT org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell class to show themselves.  Occasionally I forget how to get the default Shell.  Maybe Google will start returning this tip.  Here's how to do it:

PlatformUI.getWorkbench().
                getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getShell();

Don't forget to add a dependency on org.eclipse.ui to your plugin.

An improvement over this is to subclass your favorite Eclipse dialog and provide a new static "open...()" method that doesn't ask for the Shell param and uses the default.

Comments

[William Cornejo]

Effectively, this tip is already appearing in Google :).
Thanks!