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
* subtree. Create the children 1 level deep.
     * <p>
     * Note that we use a "dummy" item (no user data) to show a "+" icon beside
     * an item which has children before the item is expanded now that it is
     * being expanded we have to create the real child items
     * </p>
     * 
     * @param event
     *            the SWT tree event
     */
    private void handleTreeExpand(TreeEvent event) {
        createChildren(event.item);
    }
    /**
     * Hides the categories.
     */
    
    void hideCategories() {
        isShowingCategories = false;
        categories = null;
        refresh();
    }
    /**
     * Hides the expert properties.
     */
    
    void hideExpert() {
        isShowingExpertProperties = false;
        refresh();
    }