Bug 501051 - Javadoc tooltips do not appear at content assist window in Eclipse Neon
Summary: Javadoc tooltips do not appear at content assist window in Eclipse Neon
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: needinfo
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Reported: 2016-09-08 05:07 EDT by Ioannis Stamatakis CLA
Modified: 2016-09-11 05:18 EDT (History)
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screenshot of eclipse neon showing that javadoc is missing (185.68 KB, image/jpeg)
2016-09-08 05:07 EDT, Ioannis Stamatakis CLA 		no flags Details
Error report when opening content assist (2.45 KB, text/plain)
2016-09-09 06:00 EDT, Ioannis Stamatakis CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Ioannis Stamatakis CLA 2016-09-08 05:07:50 EDT 
Created attachment 264023 [details]
screenshot of eclipse neon showing that javadoc is missing

After upgrading to Neon (4.6) the Javadoc will not any more show up next to the code recommendations within the content assist window when selecting one of the recommended items.
Comment 1 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-09-08 09:01:47 EDT 
I can not reproduce the issue with the latest source code in Eclipse SDK
Version: Oxygen (4.7)
Build id: I20160830-0800
OS: Windows 10, v.10.0, x86_64 / win32

see: http://imgur.com/e6pdW8f.png

Could you please share the details of your configuration ?

Could you please try to download the latest I-Build from [#1] and confirm that this is still not working ? 

[#1] see http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/
Comment 2 Ioannis Stamatakis CLA 2016-09-09 05:58:15 EDT 
(In reply to Patrik Suzzi from comment #1)
Dear Patrik, 
right now I would like to avoid that, cause I am in the middle of a project soon to be delivered and I don't want to mess anything up. Yet, I tried to run eclipse from the users directory, where it is initially installed, instead of running my desktop shortcut and it ran without problems.
I am not so familiar yet with eclipse so I don't know how this could affect it. As I also imported all my preferences, the configuration should be the same.
However, in case you need to further investigate the bug, I also attach for you the error report received the time I was trying to use content assist. You can also see my configuration in there.  
Let me know if you need more info, yet now I also cannot reproduce the bug and hopefully it will not come back...
Thanks a lot
Comment 3 Ioannis Stamatakis CLA 2016-09-09 06:00:14 EDT 
Created attachment 264071 [details]
Error report when opening content assist
Comment 4 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-09-09 06:12:56 EDT 
IMO, you could have two problems: 
1. Some of your plug-ins is not compatible with neon. and there is a plug-in that destabilized the javadoc/content assist. 
2. your eclipse is installed in a system-reserved folder, and windows is messing with this.

Case 1. you could solve by listing the extra plug-ins installed, and checking whether they are supported in Neon. 

Case 2. you can solve by installing eclipse in a folder which is not system reserved. As an example your desktop or user folder.
Comment 5 Ioannis Stamatakis CLA 2016-09-09 06:23:12 EDT 
Thanks again, I 'll do that!
Comment 6 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-09-11 05:18:21 EDT 
Closing as Worksforme. 

Please, reopen if the error persists after doing checks at Comment 4.