Bug 69623 - [hovering] Show why there's no Javadoc
Summary: [hovering] Show why there's no Javadoc
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P2 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.2 M6   Edit
Assignee: JDT-Text-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: faq, ui, usability
: 82936 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2004-07-08 11:20 EDT by Edoardo Causarano CLA
Modified: 2006-03-30 03:42 EST (History)
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Description Edoardo Causarano CLA 2004-07-08 11:20:22 EDT 
Javadocs for methods, etc within the JRE display propery in the Javadoc View and in the code window 
after appropriate delay; the external browser menu also works. User libraries don't work in the first two 
cases, only the external browser works... (this confirms that the javadoc path is correct)
Comment 1 Edoardo Causarano CLA 2004-07-09 05:33:42 EDT 
I read on a web forum that the popup javadoc come from the javadoc comments in the source code! No 
javadoc popup means no source location was specified in the user lib jar property. Perhaps a nice fat 
NOTICE about this should be added to the jar javadoc/src path setup pane...(would have saved me one 
big delusional day) Anyhow, thanks for Eclipse, it's soo cool... ;-)
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2004-07-15 04:44:56 EDT 
There's a feature request about extracting the info from Javadoc (see bug
41421). I change your PR to cover the good suggestion about showing a warning in
the tool tip.

Note: this feature must have a preference to allow users to disable it.
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2005-01-17 04:07:23 EST 
*** Bug 82936 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Austin Tam CLA 2005-01-17 09:37:41 EST 
To obtain javadoc popups for J2SE API, I found that I had to associate the J2SE
source (i.e. attach the source found in the JDK to rt.jar).

However, one would assume that associatiation of the J2SE javadocs can be done
via the JRE properties.
ie.
In preferences, Java->installed JRE, 
select a JRE entry and point the javadoc URL to the J2SE javadocs, either the
web location or to a local copy.

Hence, I believe the javadoc URL property is misleading since it doesn't provide
the in-Eclipse javadoc popups. It does allow the view in external browser option
to work though.
Comment 5 Dani Megert CLA 2005-05-26 18:20:00 EDT 
Deferred.
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2006-03-14 04:58:02 EST 
Fixed in HEAD.
Available in builds > N20060314-0010.
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2006-03-30 03:42:40 EST 
Verified using I20060330-0010.