How can I put an IEditorPart in a modal dialog?

(I'm something of an Eclipse ne开发者_如何学编程wbie, so apologise for any dumbness on my part...)

I have a number of editors (derived from IEditorPart) in my RCP app, and a requirement has arisen that one particular editor needs to be also available in a modal dialog box (along with some extra controls) opened by one of the other editor classes. The editor to be embedded consists of the main viewer control, toolbar, and a couple of dozen helper classes (label providers, comparators, etc).

The options before me appear to be:

1. Find a way to put an editor area, IWorkbenchWindow-style, into a (JFace or SWT) Dialog.

   • Not had much luck searching for how to do this

2. Create a new WorkBenchWindow with a Perspective that just the editor area visible, and no views. Make this modal.

   • On trying this, the new window seemed to inherit things (menus etc) from its parent window.

3. Refactor the editor in question so all of it now resides on a single control, then embed this control in both the editor and the dialog.

   • Potentially time-consuming, given the number of places the helper classes refer back to the main editor object.

If it turns out that this is a truly perverse and anti-idiomatic thing to want to do, in Eclipse terms, can you suggest a wiser course of action?

Thanks

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EditorParts are meant to be inside workbenchwindows. There is a lot of code that depends on this behaviour. So I would suggest not to do (1). If the result is acceptable (a workbench window, which is modal), the easier way is to hang on to (2).