Bug 162916 [Undo] [IDE] Invalid thread access from new file wizard
Build: I20061031-0656 1) Create a simple project 2) In the file system, add file "a.txt" to the project 3) Back in Eclipse, do File > New > File, select the project and enter a name of "a.txt". An internal error occurs because it is trying to open an error dialog from a modal context thread: org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Invalid thread access at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3407) at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3330) at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3301) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.error(Widget.java:432) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.<init>(Shell.java:271) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.<init>(Shell.java:357) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.createShell(Window.java:482) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:425) at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:1111) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:785) at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.ErrorDialog.open(ErrorDialog.java:296) at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.ErrorDialog.openError(ErrorDialog.java:360) at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.ErrorDialog.openError(ErrorDialog.java:325) at org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.WizardNewFileCreationPage$4.run(WizardNewFileCreationPage.java:343) at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:113)
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.ide/extensions/org/eclipse/ui/dialogs/WizardNewFolderMainPage.java
/**
	 * Checks whether the linked resource target is valid. Sets the error
	 * message accordingly and returns the status.
	 * 
	 * @return IStatus validation result from the CreateLinkedResourceGroup
	 */
	protected IStatus validateLinkedResource() {
		IPath containerPath = resourceGroup.getContainerFullPath();
		IPath newFolderPath = containerPath.append(resourceGroup.getResource());
		IFolder newFolderHandle = createFolderHandle(newFolderPath);
		IStatus status = linkedResourceGroup
				.validateLinkLocation(newFolderHandle);
		if (status.getSeverity() == IStatus.ERROR) {
			if (firstLinkCheck) {
				setMessage(status.getMessage());
			} else {
				setErrorMessage(status.getMessage());
			}
		} else if (status.getSeverity() == IStatus.WARNING) {
			setMessage(status.getMessage(), WARNING);
			setErrorMessage(null);
		}
		return status;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns whether this page's controls currently all contain valid values.
	 * 
	 * @return <code>true</code> if all controls are valid, and
	 *         <code>false</code> if at least one is invalid
	 */