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 >> >
