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I have to press TAB to get into the command-completion pop-up window in order for it to hi-lite the current selection. That doesn't preclude me from making a selection however. I can arrow up and down and move the current selection, but nothing is hi-lited to tell me that. I can even press ENTER and have the current selection placed into the code pane. If I press TAB before pressing ENTER the current selection is properly hi-lited.
This is intended behavior. The focus remains on the editor unless you give it explicitly to the list. This allows to type characters into the editor and narrow down the list.
If that is so, then this is a bug in the Windows release, because as soon as I type CTRL+Space in Windows the hilighting is there in the completion window. However, notice that the editor still has focus. What I was complaining about was that the hi-lite doesn't show up. Perhaps my post was not as clear as it could be. So, let me try again. All I want to happen is for the hilighting to take place in the pop-up window as soon as I press CTRL+Space. Every version prior to this one has done that.
OK: you mean you do not see any element being selected in the inactive (i.e. has no focus) list? Try whether you see inactive list selection in another (non-Eclipse) list. Maybe your inactive list selection color is the same as the list's background color.
Great, I'll bite. What other type of "(non-Eclipse) list" can I try?
... actually, that may have been a premature bite. I haven't changed any of the colors. They are all at their defaults. The item does get hi-lited with an orange-ish background when I tab into it.
Open gedit. Edit > Preferences, select Editor > Open ==> you get an encoding list. Select an element and remove focus from the list.
when you tab into it it gets focus. the list bg color for active and inactive list selection are (normally) not the same.
Gotcha... I am building gEdit now. I will let you know.
There's even an easier way: in Eclipse change the completion proposal bg color: Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Code Assist
OK, well that is a work-around. I have done that. The current selection in the inactive window now has the default white-ish background and the background of the rest of the list is what I have set it to. That does the job of letting me know what is currently selected, but it still seems that something is amiss. Am I to infer from your responses thus far that you do not have this issue? If not, then it's certainly an external issue to Eclipse (themes perhaps?).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64861 ***
