Bug 125012 [Field Assist] Clarify lifecycle of the ILabelProvider used by ContentProposalAdapter
I20060119-0800 Clients who want to port their field content assistants from jface.text.contentassist to jface.fieldassist would expect to be able to supply an image in IContentProposal, e.g. with a 'Image getImage();' method as in ICompletionProposal. Without icons, e.g. proposals for java type names would look quite different from the ones you get in the java editor. There's also a lot more functionality in ICompletionProposal and the 4 ICompletionProposalExtension* interfaces. Some of those concepts must also be supported in fieldassist if clients such as the Find/Replace dialog and Java type completions in dialogs should switch (e.g. the additionalProposalInfo to show documentation for regex proposals, etc.). I can file separate bugs for these functionalities if you want to discuss them one by one.
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/fieldassist/ContentProposalAdapter.java
*         keyStroke value is <code>null</code>, then all alphanumeric
	 *         characters will auto-activate content proposal.
	 */
	public char[] getAutoActivationCharacters() {
		if (autoActivateString == null)
			return null;
		return autoActivateString.toCharArray();
	}
	/**
	 * Set the array of characters that will trigger autoactivation of the
	 * popup.
	 * 
	 * @param autoActivationCharacters
	 *            An array of characters that trigger auto-activation of content
	 *            proposal. If specified, these characters will trigger
	 *            auto-activation of the proposal popup, regardless of whether
	 *            an explicit invocation keyStroke was specified. If this
	 *            parameter is <code>null</code>, then only a specified
	 *            keyStroke will invoke content proposal. If this parameter is
	 *            <code>null</code> and the keyStroke value is
	 *            <code>null</code>, then all alphanumeric characters will
	 *            auto-activate content proposal.
	 * 
	 */
	public void setAutoActivationCharacters(char[] autoActivationCharacters) {
		this.autoActivateString = new String(autoActivationCharacters);
	}
	/**
	 * Set the delay, in milliseconds, used before any autoactivation is
	 * triggered.