Bug 189999 [PropertiesView] [PropertiesView] Setting 1 value causes very slow recursive refresh
I have a properties with a hierarchy. Everything is read-only except for the leaf nodes. Setting a value takes about 5 seconds on my Core2Duo and seems to have possibly gotten even slower in RC2. This stems from the call to PropertySheetEntry.refreshFromRoot in the setValue method. Why should 1 value cause a total refresh? If other values were dependent, shouldn't they have listeners? This is a big problem for me as it will be very hard for my users to be productive with such a slow interface. I realize its late to get something in for 3.3. If there is a workaround, I would really like to know about it so I don't have to reimplement the property view.
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.views/src/org/eclipse/ui/views/properties/PropertySheetViewer.java
addColumns();
        
        hookControl();
        
        treeEditor = new TreeEditor(tree);
        
        createEntryListener();
        createEditorListener();
    }
    /**
     * Activate a cell editor for the given selected tree item.
     * 
     * @param item
     *            the selected tree item
     */
    private void activateCellEditor(TreeItem item) {
        
        tree.showSelection();
        
        IPropertySheetEntry activeEntry = (IPropertySheetEntry) item.getData();
        
        
        cellEditor = activeEntry.getEditor(tree);
        if (cellEditor == null) {
			
            return;
		}
        
        cellEditor.activate();