Eclipse crashes on Windows when SWT reads clipboard during `FocusIn` while JavaFX owns clipboard

[ddscharfe]

Describe the bug On Windows, if JavaFX currently owns the system clipboard (e.g., content set via javafx.scene.input.Clipboard#setContent), reading the clipboard from an SWT Display FocusIn event filter triggers a native crash (access violation in msvcrt.dll) when a second shell is opened and its Text control receives certain events (e.g., a key press). This is reproducible with a minimal SWT+JavaFX snippet (below). In our Eclipse-based product, the regression surfaced when EGit introduced a clipboard property tester (see: https://github.com/eclipse-egit/egit/issues/48): The tester runs during focus activation, causing the clipboard to be read in FocusIn. The clipboard property tester was deactivated by default (https://github.com/eclipse-egit/egit/issues/83), which solves the crash in our product for now, but the issue still exists in SWT/JavaFX.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start the following snippet (requires JavaFX)

import java.util.Collections;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.dnd.TextTransfer;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text;

import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.scene.input.Clipboard;
import javafx.scene.input.DataFormat;

public final class SwtSnippet {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// Start JavaFX runtime and set clipboard content
		Platform.startup(() -> Clipboard.getSystemClipboard()
				.setContent(Collections.singletonMap(DataFormat.PLAIN_TEXT, "JavaFX Clipboard Content")));

		Display display = new Display();
		Shell shell = new Shell(display);

		// Query the clipboard contents on FocusIn events
		display.addFilter(SWT.FocusIn, a -> {
			org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard clipboard = new org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard(display);
			clipboard.getContents(TextTransfer.getInstance());
			clipboard.dispose();
		});

		shell.open();

		// Open another shell which displays a text field
		Shell dlg = new Shell(shell, SWT.NONE);
		dlg.setLayout(new FillLayout());
		new Text(dlg, SWT.NONE);
		dlg.open();

		while (!dlg.isDisposed()) {
			if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
				display.sleep();
			}
		}
	}
}

2. The second shell appears.
3. Type any character on the keyboard. Result: the JVM crashes.

---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------

Current thread (0x000001c8311ffce0):  JavaThread "main"             [_thread_in_native, id=17476, stack(0x0000006a22200000,0x0000006a22300000) (1024K)]

Stack: [0x0000006a22200000,0x0000006a22300000],  sp=0x0000006a222fe188,  free space=1016k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C  [msvcrt.dll+0x74414]
C  [COMCTL32.dll+0x12f7f]
C  [COMCTL32.dll+0x407a5]
C  [COMCTL32.dll+0x3fa49]
C  [COMCTL32.dll+0x11c79]
C  [COMCTL32.dll+0x110ca]
C  [USER32.dll+0xef5c]
C  [USER32.dll+0xe9de]
C  0x000001c83e3a0736

The last pc belongs to native method entry point (kind = native) (printed below).
Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.CallWindowProc(JJIJJ)J+0
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text.callWindowProc(JIJJ)J+1111
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.windowProc(JIJJ)J+2062
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text.windowProc(JIJJ)J+395
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(JJJJ)J+21
v  ~StubRoutines::call_stub 0x000001c83e39100d
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessage(Lorg/eclipse/swt/internal/win32/MSG;)J+0
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch()Z+64
j  SwtSnippet.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V+78
v  ~StubRoutines::call_stub 0x000001c83e39100d

siginfo: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005), writing address 0x0000000000000000

Environment:

• Windows
• Java 21 to 23
• JavaFX 19 to 23
• recent SWT (2024 and later)