Bug 15722

Summary:	No way to get popup text without a mouse
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	David Goodenough <David.Goodenough>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Grant Gayed <grant_gayed>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akiezun
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description David Goodenough

2002-05-10 06:58:35 EDT

There would appear to be no way to get to popup error text, such as that 
associated with the syntax error underlining without positioning the mouse
cursor over the error area.  There should be a way of positioning the text
cursor above the error area and using the keyboard call up the message.

Comment 1 Adam Kiezun

2002-05-10 08:22:54 EDT

F2 does not work?

Comment 2 David Goodenough

2002-05-10 15:38:04 EDT

Well I had missed F2, but now I come to try it it nearly works.  The problemis that what pops up dissapears so rapidly that it is hardly even visiblelet alone being able to read what it says.

Comment 3 Erich Gamma

2002-05-11 04:22:46 EDT

F2 now called Show Description Tooltip does what you want. 
The pop-up shell stays up on Windows. You see the problem
on Linux (GTK? Motif?)

I suspect an event inconsistency between Linux/Motif and Windows.
Moving to SWT for comment.

Comment 4 David Goodenough

2002-05-11 12:27:39 EDT

Motif

Comment 5 Mike Wilson

2002-05-13 08:55:04 EDT

See also bug #15252.

Comment 6 Grant Gayed

2002-05-13 17:22:41 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9352 ***