My earlier email was confusing. Hopefully these corrections will clarify...
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 11:42, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I am still using NB 8.2; I intend to upgrade when I upgrade my Ubuntu when > 16.04 looses its LTS and perhaps this suggestion might have been added in a > later version of the IDE. Please let me know if this is the case, and that > would catalyse my action. > > *[So, to the matter at hand...] *I can write a method in a superclass to > the *[class]* which appears in my NB editor window. The class that I am > editing can implement an interface that gives the same method signature to > the one that appears in the superclass. This is all good; the compiler does > not show *[an]* error message saying the method declared in the interface > is unimplemented. > > However, when I go to the navigator window and select the method in > question, the editor takes me directly to the implementation in the > *[superclass]*. So what, you might say -- if one wants to inspect the > declaration given in the interface, one can override the method in the > class that delegates execution to the method in the superclass, and one can > navigate to the interface by clicking on the green circle embellishment > that appears at the left and selecting the interface's declaration. > > The thing with this is that doing overriding the superclass method appears > to introduce a superfluous stack frame in the runtime, and hence I think it > would be much better if the same list that appears when the green circle is > selected in the editor can appear when one selects the method from the > navigator window. > > Although I make this suggestion, I am ill-disposed to get my hands dirty. > Does anyone who fiddles with Netbeans on a regular basis think this is a > good enhancement to make? > > Thanks, > > Owen. >
