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The new support for ControlDecoration allows clients to place a decoration adjacent to a control. In the initial implementation, the client can specify that the decoration appear to the left or right of the control, aligned at the top, center, or bottom. In visual design discussions, we've discussed the need for a specialized decoration that can be placed at a particular table row, to indicate content assist in that row. Such a decoration would need to be aware of the row's location to position the decoration appropriately, as well as respond to scrolling by moving the decoration accordingly. We agreed that this support should come after a wider adoption of ControlDecoration and the use of field-level decorations. In the meantime, I have made the update() and getDecorationRectangle(Control) methods protected so that some experimentation can be done in a subclass.
cc'ing those involved in the latest visual design discussions...
Note to self: if we do not provide support for table-row decorations in 3.3, then the experimental protected methods should be made private again before API freeze.
removing milestone. We aren't adding general support for table row decorations. Whether we provide protected API for getDecorationRectangle() to allow arbitrary placement is covered in bug #162770
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
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