Field-Decorators with Field-Assists
26. January 2007
Since Eclipse 3.2 JFace provides a possibility to decorate your Controls. That means you can add small icons and messages to your control to give the user a feedback of the expected input. Especially for applications that are designed for a wide range of end-users with different skills, it’s an elegant way holding the users hand while guiding him through different forms. The additional capability of field-assists makes it very easy to improve the handling of your application. In this article an example is shown how to decorate a text-control and adding a simple filed assist. (more…)
