Hi Richard, I think it wasn't the correct name. What I called "Hint window" should be called "pop-up documentation window" which appears if you press Ctrl+Space while typing. You may also enable its appearance automatically under Tools->Options->Editor->Code Completion
The behavior I reported about being able to see correct location in a browser is for the case where I have copied the elements-list to a file named packages-list in the Javadoc of the external library. The pop-up documentation window only shows the type definitions for the external library, but is otherwise empty. But I am guessing this is because the Javadoc is not in the format expected by Netbeans and I am merely hacking it with the renaming trick. Below is an example how it should look like. Here sourcing from online Javadoc for JDK11. [image: Netbeans_javadoc.png] Best regards Abhinav On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:33 PM Richard Grin < richard.g...@univ-cotedazur.fr> wrote: > Hi Abhinav, > > What is this "hint window"? How do you open it? > > Richard > Le 28/11/2019 à 16:00, A S a écrit : > > One additional info: With Alt-F1(or context menu) or by clicking on the > "Show documentation in external web browser" button in the hint window, I > do land to the correct part of the documentation in the external browser. > Just that the documentation doesn't show up in the hint window in the > editor. > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 12:31 PM A S <abhinav.sharma.s...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks for your response Emi! I haven't tried with any other libraries or >> any other JDK versions to try other Javadoc formats. To be frank I only got >> to know these two possibilities because of the issue here, and am not aware >> of any other formats. >> >> I am hoping some more experienced users have some insight here, and can >> guide/help me how in filing a bug if this is one. >> >> Regards >> Abhinav >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 6:40 PM Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> This sounds like a NetBeans bug. >>> >>> In JDK 10, "element-list" was added to better support modules. So, >>> does NetBeans work with other modern Javadocs? >>> >>> Maybe there is something subtler: does a library in a JDK 8 project >>> display Javadoc 11-style documentation? >>> >>> --emi >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 4:45 PM A S <abhinav.sharma.s...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > I am only sporadically using Netbeans for some small projects, so my >>> apologies if the question is too amateurish. I was previously using >>> Netbeans 8.2, and the platform I was working with was Java 8. >>> > >>> > With a change to JDK 11 for the project, I switched up to Apache >>> Netbeans 11.2. For one of the libraries that I am using for the project, >>> when I try to add the Javadoc to the library, Netbeans complains because no >>> package-list exist. I see that the JDK 11 version has an 'element-list' in >>> the javadoc folder with contents similar to the 'package-list' of JDK 8 >>> version. If I copy the element-list and rename the file to package-list, >>> Netbeans seems to be able to add the Javadoc. However this only allows the >>> path to be added as javadoc, and the documentation isn't actually available >>> when referencing a method in the editor. >>> > >>> > My google searches are quit inconclusive on whether there is a way to >>> read such a Javadoc from Netbeans. Does anyone have a concrete answer on >>> whether this is possible? If yes, how? >>> > >>> > Best regards >>> > Abhinav Sharma >>> >>
