A fellow developer dislikes the Eclipse hovering Javadoc and would like to disable it (one option), or, better yet, only selectively enable it (other option). He's using Eclipse 3.3. Is this possible?
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Not sure what you mean by "selectively" enabling it. Based on what?
Directions below are for 3.5, I don't have 3.3 lying around to check but I'm pretty sure same settings were available.
Go to Window - Preferences; select Java / Editor / Howers on left hand side. You'll have to uncheck the Combined Hover option on the right; you can then either uncheck Javadoc option or check it but specify a modifier key for it (in the edit box below). In the latter case javadoc hover would only appear if you hold that key.
I've got to say, though, that the inconvenience of not having Combined Handler makes this really not worth it in my opinion.
ChssPly76
2009-10-08 20:06:55
I found it fairly useful to set up a modifier key for the combined hover; the default settings were making it so that I constantly had a hover box for every element in the code, even if I only stopped the pointer long enough to click and place the edit caret.
jprete
2009-10-08 20:08:47
Thanks for answering - and I agree w/your opinion (this guy is using something that looks like DOS Edit in addition to Eclipse - UGH).
MetroidFan2002
2009-10-08 20:42:48
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You could go to
Preferences / Java / Editor / Hover
and untick the "Combined Hover" option: no more popup.
Then you would have:
Shift+F2: open the external javadoc if javadoc archive or directory has been associated with your project (and if some javadoc has been generated)
Alt+Shift+Q, followed by J: open the javadoc view, with the same content than the popup previously seen on mouse hovering.
VonC
2009-10-08 20:07:06
I accepted the other answer because it had more details - I like this answer as well, though. Thanks.
MetroidFan2002
2009-10-08 20:43:21