Thanks! =D "David Mankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Andre Mermegas wrote: > > > At least not for me, I try adding the path to an outside api for instance > > j2sdkee docs in the project settings, but it just doesnt pick up any of the > > api text when I > > do a quick javadoc inside the editor ctrl-q. > > > > I tried moving the entry up above <JDK> to see if that would perhaps help > > but it didn't. > > > > Any ideas? no pun intended > > Yes! It took me a long time to figure this out, but now I know... > > IDEA uses java SOURCE, not javadoc, to generate the Control-Q javadoc. > So you have to add source for all the packages for which you want popup > javadoc to your Sourcepath. > > This often means downloading additional source releases of open tools (I > had to get Tomcat and Ant source). It can be a limitation when there is > no source available, too. > > A while back Eugene (?) said that they were consdiering parsing javadoc > html files to get the control-q information. I think that's a good plan > for times when source can't be found, but I still like the parsing > source method too, since the source is usually more up-to-date than the > javadoc. > > -David Mankin >
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