http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12986912/using-progressmonitordialog-in-eclipse-4-properly
public class Progress {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// Create your new ProgressMonitorDialog with a IRunnableWithProgress
try {
// 10 is the workload, so in your case the number of files to copy
IRunnableWithProgress op = new YourThread(10);
new ProgressMonitorDialog(new Shell()).run(true, true, op);
} catch (InvocationTargetException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static class YourThread implements IRunnableWithProgress
{
private int workload;
public YourThread(int workload)
{
this.workload = workload;
}
@Override
public void run(IProgressMonitor monitor) throws InvocationTargetException, InterruptedException
{
// Tell the user what you are doing
monitor.beginTask("Copying files", workload);
// Do your work
for(int i = 0; i < workload; i++)
{
// Optionally add subtasks
monitor.subTask("Copying file " + (i+1) + " of "+ workload + "...");
Thread.sleep(2000);
// Tell the monitor that you successfully finished one item of "workload"-many
monitor.worked(1);
// Check if the user pressed "cancel"
if(monitor.isCanceled())
{
monitor.done();
return;
}
}
// You are done
monitor.done();
}
}
}