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 cp != null && cp.hasChildren(path);
		}
		return isExpandable(element);
	}
	
	protected void labelProviderChanged() {
		
		Control tree = getControl();
		tree.setRedraw(false);
		
		internalRefresh(tree, getRoot(), false, true);
		tree.setRedraw(true);
	}
	/**
	 * Creates a new item.
	 * 
	 * @param parent
	 *            the parent widget
	 * @param style
	 *            SWT style bits
	 * @param index
	 *            if non-negative, indicates the position to insert the item
	 *            into its parent
	 * @return the newly-created item
	 */
	protected abstract Item newItem(Widget parent, int style, int index);
	/**
	 * Removes the given elements from this viewer. The selection is updated if
	 * required.
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