Eclipse and java documentation

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Brian - 07 Nov 2005 19:30 GMT

Eclipse is giving me context sensitive help (i.e. tooltips in the editor)
which look to be templates without any useful info.

I suspect I need to put Sun's API docs in some location to get useful stuff
in the help blurbs.

How do I fix this?

Thanks!

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Rhino - 07 Nov 2005 19:58 GMT

> Eclipse is giving me context sensitive help (i.e. tooltips in the editor)
> which look to be templates without any useful info.
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> How do I fix this?

Sounds like a bug in Eclipse to me, unless perhaps you've messed something
up with the install or with the overall Preferences within Eclipse.

You shouldn't have to do anything special to get those tooltips to work;
I've had several versions of Eclipse and never had a problem like that with
any of them.

If it is a bug, you could try downloading a slightly older/newer version of
Eclipse and see if the problem is absent there. You could also ask on the
appropriate Eclipse newsgroup to see if this is a known problem and if there
is a workaround for it.

Rhino

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Marc E - 08 Nov 2005 00:00 GMT

had this problem myself; my problem was with the system Path variable. I had
the project's JVM as 1.5, but my path variable was pointing to my 1.4 jdk.

after starting eclipse with it pointing to my 1.5 install, javadocs and such
started working right away.

maybe give that a shot.

Good luck.

>> Eclipse is giving me context sensitive help (i.e. tooltips in the editor)
>> which look to be templates without any useful info.
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> Rhino

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