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
return getParentItem(existingItem) == getParentItem(items[0]);
				}
			}
		}
		for (int i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
			if (items[i].getData().equals(element)) {
				return true;
			}
		}
		return false;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the index where the item should be inserted. It uses sorter to
	 * determine the correct position, if sorter is not assigned, returns the
	 * index of the element after the last.
	 * 
	 * @param items
	 *            the items to search
	 * @param sorter
	 *            The sorter to use.
	 * @param lastInsertion
	 *            the start index to start search for position from this allows
	 *            optimising search for multiple elements that are sorted
	 *            themself.
	 * @param element
	 *            element to find position for.
	 * @param parentPath
	 *            the tree path for the element's parent or <code>null</code>
	 *            if the element is a root element or the sorter is not a
	 *            {@link TreePathViewerSorter}