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The toolkit is responsible for creating SWT controls adapted to work in
Eclipse forms. In addition to changing their presentation properties (fonts,
colors etc.), various listeners are attached to make them behave correctly in
the form context.

In addition to being the control factory, the toolkit is also responsible for
painting flat borders for select controls, managing hyperlink groups and
control colors.

The toolkit creates some of the most common controls used to populate Eclipse
forms. Controls that must be created using their constructors,
adapt() method is available to change its properties in the
same way as with the supported toolkit controls.

Typically, one toolkit object is created per workbench part (for example, an
editor or a form wizard). The toolkit is disposed when the part is disposed.
To conserve resources, it is possible to create one color object for the
entire plug-in and share it between several toolkits. The plug-in is
responsible for disposing the colors (disposing the toolkit that uses shared
color object will not dispose the colors).

FormToolkit is normally instantiated, but can also be
subclassed if some of the methods needs to be modified.
In those cases, super must be called to
preserve normal behaviour.

Exemple :

   public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
      toolkit = new FormToolkit(parent.getDisplay());
      form = toolkit.createForm(parent);
      form.setText("Hello, Eclipse Forms");
   }