Content Assist Field Descriptor Implementation Reusing My ContentAssistFieldCellEditor.

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        Using this class lets you easily configure a Eclipse IPropertySource with autocompletion fields.
See my <a href="http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3944">ContentAssistFieldCellEditor implementation</a>.

import org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist.IContentProposalProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.CellEditor;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.PropertyDescriptor;

public class ContentAssistFieldDescriptor extends PropertyDescriptor 
{	
	protected char[] completionProposalAutoActivationCharacters;
	protected IContentProposalProvider contentProposalProvider;
	    /**
	     * Creates an property descriptor with the given id and display name.
	     * 
	     * @param id the id of the property
	     * @param displayName the name to display for the property
	     */
	public ContentAssistFieldDescriptor(Object id, String displayName, char[] completionProposalAutoActivationCharacters, IContentProposalProvider contentProposalProvider) 
	{
        super( id, displayName);
        
        this.completionProposalAutoActivationCharacters = completionProposalAutoActivationCharacters;
        this.contentProposalProvider = contentProposalProvider;
    }
	
	    /**
	     * The ContentAssistFieldPropertyDescriptor implementation of this 
	     * IPropertyDescriptor method creates and returns a new
	     * TextCellEditor.
	     * 
	     * The editor is configured with the current validator if there is one.
	     * 
	     */
    @Override
    public CellEditor createPropertyEditor(Composite parent) 
    {
    	ContentAssistFieldCellEditor editor = new ContentAssistFieldCellEditor( parent, completionProposalAutoActivationCharacters, contentProposalProvider);
        if (getValidator() != null) 
        {
	     editor.setValidator(getValidator());
	}
        return editor;
    }
}

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• Eclipse
• jface
• SWT