From 05a796346b0c040d82eb3434d64981383e27fd59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Cortell <john.cortell@freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:58:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Return the shell from any available workbench window if none
 are active. Noticed Debug Platform does this.

---
 .../org/eclipse/cdt/debug/ui/CDebugUIPlugin.java    | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/ui/CDebugUIPlugin.java b/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/ui/CDebugUIPlugin.java
index 4120546b747..368e9fdc79e 100644
--- a/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/ui/CDebugUIPlugin.java
+++ b/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/ui/CDebugUIPlugin.java
@@ -223,13 +223,18 @@ public class CDebugUIPlugin extends AbstractUIPlugin {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Returns the active workbench shell or <code>null</code> if none
-	 * 
-	 * @return the active workbench shell or <code>null</code> if none
+	 * Returns the active workbench shell, or the shell from the first available
+	 * workbench window, or <code>null</code> if neither is available.
 	 */
 	public static Shell getActiveWorkbenchShell() {
 		IWorkbenchWindow window = getActiveWorkbenchWindow();
-		if ( window != null ) {
+		if (window == null) {
+			IWorkbenchWindow[] windows = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getWorkbenchWindows();
+			if (windows.length > 0) {
+				return windows[0].getShell();
+			}
+		}
+		else {
 			return window.getShell();
 		}
 		return null;