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| Managed forms</H1> |
| <p align="left">Managed forms are wrappers that add life cycle management and |
| notification to form members. Managed form is not a form by itself. It <i>has</i> |
| a form and accepts registration of <code>IFormPart</code> element. For each |
| <code>IFormPart</code>, it manages events like dirty state, saving, commit, |
| focus, selection changes etc. In order to reach to the wrapped form widget, call |
| the '<code>getForm()'</code> method.</p> |
| <p align="left">There is a similarity between managed forms and JFace viewers - |
| the relationship between a form and a managed form is similar to the one between |
| a <code>Table</code> widget and <code>TableViewer</code> in JFace, for example.</p> |
| <p align="left">Not every control on the form needs to be a form part. It is |
| better to group a number of controls and implement <code>IFormPart</code> |
| interface for the group. Section is a natural group and Eclipse Form provides |
| <code>SectionPart</code> implementation. It implements the interface and |
| contains a <code>Section</code> instance (either created outside and passed into |
| the constructor, or created in the part itself).</p> |
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