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intellisense in eclispe [message #171246]

Sat, 16 September 2006 18:56

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: vijay.kumar.xerox.com

Hi!

I am new to this newsgroup. I am .NET developer who is developing .NET
applications for past 6 years. I love visual studio .NET IDE and its
intellisense is excellent. When I type in class name and . it shows me
all the methods and properties of class. Hovering mouse over method name
will give you detailed description of method. This is exteremly useful
as I don't have to press F1 keys explicitly for each function to find out
what it does.

Now I have started new development in java using eclipse IDE. Intellisense
in IDE is limited to shwoing all the memembers of class after typeing .
against the class name. When I hover mouse over specific function name of
class it doesn't give me method description.

Is this eclispe limitation?
Is there way where I can get detailed context sensitive help about each
method of the class?

Any help in this regard will be exteremly useful to me.

Thanks in advance for your help.
VJ

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Re: intellisense in eclispe [message #171262 is a reply to message #171246]

Sun, 17 September 2006 04:12

surya

Messages: 4
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Eclipse also does all the same things ..
do cntrl + space and it will give you all the method names and also show you
corresponding javadoc...
what more can one ask for ...eclipse rocks

"VJ" <vijay.kumar@xerox.com> wrote in message
news:9848aba77152706c0173b2e0d98107c9$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hi!
>
> I am new to this newsgroup. I am .NET developer who is developing .NET
> applications for past 6 years. I love visual studio .NET IDE and its
> intellisense is excellent. When I type in class name and . it shows me
> all the methods and properties of class. Hovering mouse over method name
> will give you detailed description of method. This is exteremly useful
> as I don't have to press F1 keys explicitly for each function to find out
> what it does.
>
> Now I have started new development in java using eclipse IDE. Intellisense
> in IDE is limited to shwoing all the memembers of class after typeing .
> against the class name. When I hover mouse over specific function name of
> class it doesn't give me method description.
> Is this eclispe limitation? Is there way where I can get detailed context
> sensitive help about each method of the class?
>
> Any help in this regard will be exteremly useful to me.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> VJ
>

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Re: intellisense in eclispe [message #171335 is a reply to message #171262]

Sun, 17 September 2006 16:32

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: vijay1974.yahoo.com

Thanks for your reply.
When I hover mouse over function name, I want to see the function help. Is
it possible in eclipse.

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Re: intellisense in eclispe [message #171370 is a reply to message #171335]

Mon, 18 September 2006 07:57

Dani Megert

Messages: 3802
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

vijay wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.
> When I hover mouse over function name, I want to see the function
> help. Is it possible in eclips

Yes this is possible but (at least before R3.2) you need to have the
source attached:
1. Go to the Java > Installed JREs preference page
2. select your JRE
3. click 'Edit'
4. select all JARs at once
5. click 'Source Attachment...'

HTH
Dani

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Re: intellisense in eclispe [message #171398 is a reply to message #171370]

Mon, 18 September 2006 14:48

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: vijay.kumar.xerox.com

Thanks a lot.

I installed eclispe 3.2 on my home computer which attached itself to JRE
1.5.06.

I am able to view the intellisense help. Only caveat is that when I scroll
mouse up and down on the list of functions of class, it shows me the
partial help of each function not the detailed help. To get the detailed
help, I have to select that function and then press F2 key to get the
detailed help. Its little quirk which I can live with.

But I have another isse , I installed the eclipse 3.2 on my office PC. It
attached itself to JRE 1.5.08.

But now I don't see any intellisense help. I right click on the rt.jar,
javadoc location is http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/. When I
click validate button, it says location may be invalid.

But when I cut and paste same URL in my browser window, jova doc page is
displayed fine.

I am wondring is it firewall issue? If so can I configure my proxies in
eclipse?

Any help will be appreciated?

Thanks a lot in advance.
Vijay

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Re: intellisense in eclispe [message #171518 is a reply to message #171398]

Tue, 19 September 2006 07:51

Dani Megert

Messages: 3802
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

VJ wrote:

> Thanks a lot.
>
> I installed eclispe 3.2 on my home computer which attached itself to
> JRE 1.5.06.
>
> I am able to view the intellisense help. Only caveat is that when I
> scroll mouse up and down on the list of functions of class, it shows
> me the partial help of each function not the detailed help. To get the
> detailed help, I have to select that function and then press F2 key to
> get the detailed help. Its little quirk which I can live with.
>
> But I have another isse , I installed the eclipse 3.2 on my office PC.
> It attached itself to JRE 1.5.08.
> But now I don't see any intellisense help. I right click on the
> rt.jar, javadoc location is http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/.
> When I click validate button, it says location may be invalid.
>
> But when I cut and paste same URL in my browser window, jova doc page
> is displayed fine.
>
> I am wondring is it firewall issue? If so can I configure my proxies
> in eclipse?

Possibly. You can simply download and install the Javadoc locally and
point to it, but I suggest to get the source and attach it. It's faster
to extract the info from source than from the Javadoc.

Dani

>
> Any help will be appreciated?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> Vijay
>

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