Description Zviki Cohen 2009-03-03 05:13:20 EST

The field editors are a great time saver for writing preference panes. However, if one needs to combine some instructional text with the field editors there's no simple way of doing that, AFAICT.

The solution: introduce a field editor for output only. I called it OutputTextFieldEditor. 

From the FieldEditorPreferencePage subclass it may be used in the following manner:

	@Override
	protected void createFieldEditors() {
		addField(new OutputTextFieldEditor("your instructions here...", getFieldEditorParent()));
		...
	}

Source code for OutputTextFieldEditor is attached. Since I don't have a commiter status, I cannot check it in myself.