[platform-ui-dev] New JFace support - field assistance

[Susan M Franklin <susan_franklin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In the latest nightly builds (and thus
in M4), you will see the appearance of  a new package, org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist,
which was built to address:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=106199
[plan item] Improve task assistance
in text fields

The package includes support for two
somewhat related, but independently implemented, things:
- field decorators - the ability to
decorate arbitrary controls with images, including support for a context
popup describing the meaning of the decoration.
- content proposal support - the ability
to attach an adaper on an arbitrary control and provide a content proposal
popup. 
Together, these can be used to do things
like show a cue decoration when content proposals are available.  

The API is still evolving for this support,
but API freeze is closer than we think (M5). 
Please try this stuff out in your dialogs,
wizards, or forms, where appropriate and open bugs as needed....

If you are particularly interested in
required field indicators and how/whether Eclipse SDK should use them,
please comment in
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=120238

If there are existing wizards, dialogs,
forms where you think content proposals would be appropriate, please open
bugs for those features.

thanks,
susan