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
* 
     * @param message
     *            the message to be displayed, or <code>null</code>
     */
    private void setMessage(String message) {
        
        if (statusLineManager != null) {
			statusLineManager.setMessage(message);
		}
    }
    /**
     * Sets the root entry for this property sheet viewer. The root entry is not
     * visible in the viewer.
     * 
     * @param root
     *            the root entry
     */
    public void setRootEntry(IPropertySheetEntry root) {
        
        if (rootEntry != null) {
			rootEntry.removePropertySheetEntryListener(entryListener);
		}
        rootEntry = root;
        
        tree.setData(rootEntry);
        
        
        rootEntry.addPropertySheetEntryListener(entryListener);