> Ahh, I hadn't considered the mouse blocking side of things, which is > certainly desirable in some scenarios. In this particular case, I think it > would be unwanted as the ActivityIndicator would be shown to the user while a > TreeBranch is being populated via a potentially long running Task. Leaving > the mouse enabled means that the user is free to do other things.
That's true. But I still think a custom node renderer would be the easiest way to accomplish what Edvin is trying to do. :-) > I hacked together the glass pane effect by opening a Window with a null > background colour & paint (making it transparent) over the Display. I > extended it for opening modal dialogs so that it takes a snapshot of the > background, fades and blurs it, and then open the dialog over the top of it > all. (see attached image) That's cool. You might be able to achieve a similar effect by simply attaching a BlurDecorator to the dialog's owner when the dialog is opened. G
