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Hover Information [message #19295]

Tue, 18 December 2007 09:47

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: special1.gmx.de

Hi

I got another question ;-)
I want to add this kind of hover information that you can see in a small
white window while your mouse is moving through a special word
in the editor (e.g. the javadoc in java). I want to add my own information
to this from my own scriptlanguage, but i dont know where to start and how
to add own writings. Can anyone give me advice ?

Thanks a lot
Sebastian

Re: Hover Information [message #19341 is a reply to message #19295]

Wed, 19 December 2007 09:03

Eclipse User

Hi Sebastian,

If you already have selection engine implemented, you could use DLTK documentation infrastructure by extending
org.eclipse.dltk.ui.scriptDocumentationProviders extension point.
This extension provide easy way to show documentation for model elements.
Please refer to xotcl ui plugin for reference implementation.

If you don't have selection engine, you could look at org.eclipse.dltk.ui.editorTextHovers extension for generic Eclipse
Text editor hovers.

Please look at our class AbstractScriptEditorTextHover for reference implementation.

Best regards,
Andrei.

> Hi
>
> I got another question ;-)
> I want to add this kind of hover information that you can see in a small
> white window while your mouse is moving through a special word
> in the editor (e.g. the javadoc in java). I want to add my own
> information to this from my own scriptlanguage, but i dont know where to
> start and how to add own writings. Can anyone give me advice ?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Sebastian
>

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