[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: auto-activation problem

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chung Ley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some reason, my auto-activation is not working.  I am new to 
> Eclipse and just recently move my projects/application from JBuilder X 
> to Eclipse environment.  These applications are old and uses 1.4.2.
>
> I moved the code to Eclipse 3.4.1 on 2 different PC (work + home)...  
> And I believed I have similiar default setup in both.  But one has the 
> auto-activation working and the other doesn't.  I checked the 
> "preferences" and the content-assist and auto-activation are both 
> enabled in both system (which should be since I didn't mess around 
> with the default settings).
>
> On the PC that the auto-activation didn't work.  The code would 
> compiled successfully...  It is just that the auto-activation doesn't 
> work.
> Even for some simple things such as:
>   String abc = "ABC";
>   abc.
> It will not bring up anything after the "."...  I tried using the 
> "Ctrl-<space>", and it will say "No Default Proposals".
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Nothing. Most likely a conflict caused by Mylyn. Go to the Java > Editor 
> Content Assist > Advanced preference page, click 'Restore Default' 
and then 'OK'. This should do the trick.

Dani
> can anyone recommend how I should debug/approach this?
>
> Thanks....