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A "context window" in Eclipse? [message #756238]

Fri, 11 November 2011 10:32

Eclipse User

Hello,

I'm migrating from source Insight to Eclipse.

Source Insight has a very good feature: Context window

Here is a sample:
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As you can see Context window is the window in bottom of this image.

When i pur cursor on a function, it is displayed on the bottom of the screen. In eclipse i can do this putting mouse on function, but if i'm writing nothing appears.

Is it possible to have a similar feature even in eclipse?

Thank you very much

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Re: A "context window" in Eclipse? [message #756249 is a reply to message #756238]

Fri, 11 November 2011 11:30

Eclipse User

as far as i know: no!

As an alternative to the mouse, you could press F3.

Re: A "context window" in Eclipse? [message #757742 is a reply to message #756249]

Mon, 21 November 2011 07:52

Eclipse User

Not implemented yet.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=48215

But the mouse hover works very well.

Re: A "context window" in Eclipse? [message #758334 is a reply to message #757742]

Tue, 22 November 2011 14:32

Eclipse User

Axel Mueller wrote on Mon, 21 November 2011 07:52

But the mouse hover works very well.

Also F2 - "Show Tooltip Description" shows the same popup window.

But it doesn't work that well, because there is no navigation from code in the popup. This popup also shows macro expansions and navigation from this expanded code will be rather usefull.

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