How can one create a org.eclipse.jface.preference.BooleanFieldEditor with a multi-line label?

Question

The ff. does not work. "Second line" is rendered on the same line as "First line". What's more is that there is no space between the two.

new BooleanFieldEditor("Name", "First line\nSecond line", getFieldEditorParent());

Answer 1

The BooleanFieldEditor uses an SWT Label. You can't specify multiple lines for this type of widget.

I would suggest that you will need to create a custom implementation by subclassing FieldEditor.

Two things to help with this:

• The source for the BooleanFieldEditor
• A tutorial on creating a custom FieldEditor