Display real help when pressed F1 in Eclipse.

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Cat - 01 Sep 2007 08:53 GMT

I highlighted on the drawImage method of Graphics class on the source
editor, and pressed F1. If it were Microsoft Visual Studio, it would
have displayed the documention for the drawImage method. But in
Eclipse, It showed junk helps like Java editor concepts or Using the
Java browsing perspective. I tried F1, Ctrl+F1, Alt+F1 and Shift+F1
but the results were all the same.

Is it possible make Eclipse display real help like Visual Studio does?
Thank you.

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Lothar Kimmeringer - 02 Sep 2007 11:54 GMT

> Is it possible make Eclipse display real help like Visual Studio does?

In general when you hover the mouse over the method the Javadoc
should show up in a popup that can be "fixed" by pressing F2.

As well, there is a Javadoc-View that can be added to the panes
where e.g. the console-output is shown. This pane you can drag
to another position so you can keep it in view all the time.

Regards, Lothar

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