Does nobody have an idea what's wrong with my installation?

Thomas


Thomas Kellerer schrieb am 29.07.2019 um 08:45:
> Using NetBeans 11.1 on Windows.
>
> I have a strange behaviour with displaying Javadoc help for methods from the 
> JDK.
>
> The code completion (Ctrl-Space) displays the little Javadoc popup and so 
> does the JavaDoc window (Window -> IDE Tools -> JavaDoc Documentation) when I 
> open it.
>
> But Alt-F1 ("Show Javadoc") for that exact same method (where the Javadoc 
> popup is displayed) only gives an "Cannot perform Show Javadoc here" message 
> in the status line.
>
> Shift-F1 ("Search Javadoc") also finds the relevant entry, and doubleclicking 
> on it opens the default browser with the JDK documentation.
>
> This is with a Maven project using OpenJDK 11 with self generated JavaDocs.
>
> It seems that "Alt-F1" (or choosing "Show Javadoc" from the context menu in 
> the editor) uses a different way to find the Javadoc than all the other 
> methods.
>
> Is it possible that my self-generated Javadoc is missing something that "Show 
> Javadoc" needs, but the other methods don't?
>
> This is how I generate the Javadoc index from the source of OpenJDK:
>
>   javadoc -quiet -d docs -Xdoclint:none --expand-requires all 
> --module-source-path src --module java.se
>
> Do I need to specify a different "starting module"? Or is there a better way 
> to generate the Javadoc for OpenJDK?
>
> The usual panacea "start with a clean userdir" did not change this.
>
> Thomas

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