How to stop expanding an infinite SWT Tree upon pressing "*"

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Published on 2010-06-10T13:19:13Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 13:22 UTC
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I have an SWT Tree in my application that contains an infinite data structure. Upon expanding an item, I generate its children. On Windows though, users can press "*", triggering an "expand all descendants" action, and my application hangs.

There are two acceptable behaviors for me when the user presses "*":

  1. Expand all children of the selected element, but only to the next level
  2. Do nothing

In either case, I will still need to be able to expand items as deep as required (by clicking on the [+] icon, or by pressing "+"), so limiting the tree depth is not a solution. Is there another way that I can achieve either of the above without modifying SWT classes?

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