Bug 156537 [Viewers] Virtual tree viewer does not populate with initial children
I20060830-1650 When a tree viewer is created with the SWT.Vitrual flag and uses an ILazyTreeContentProvider, the viewew does not populate with the initial children in the model. The method TreeViewer.createChildren(Widget) only updates existing items if the parent (root)element has been mapped to data, and does not query the content provider for the number of children it has. Attached is a sample plug-in showing the problem. The tree "model" looks like this: root one two three When the input is set to the viewer ("root") a call is made to "createChildren", but the content provider is never used.
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/viewers/AbstractTreeViewer.java
/**
	 * Constant indicating that all levels of the tree should be expanded or
	 * collapsed.
	 * 
	 * @see #expandToLevel
	 * @see #collapseToLevel
	 */
	public static final int ALL_LEVELS = -1;
	/**
	 * List of registered tree listeners (element type:
	 * <code>TreeListener</code>).
	 */
	private ListenerList treeListeners = new ListenerList();
	/**
	 * The level to which the tree is automatically expanded each time the
	 * viewer's input is changed (that is, by <code>setInput</code>). A value
	 * of 0 means that auto-expand is off.
	 * 
	 * @see #setAutoExpandLevel
	 */
	private int expandToLevel = 0;
	/**
	 * Safe runnable used to update an item.
	 */
	class UpdateItemSafeRunnable extends SafeRunnable {