Thanks Abhinav. I had not noticed this little icon "Show documentation in external web brower button".
When I click on this button, I receive a "Page not found" error (404). Yet I have the good URL for the javadoc of the JDK 11 (as I see in the Java Platform Manager). I use NetBeans 11.2 without the "nb-javac Java editing support library". Richard Le 29/11/2019 à 15:00, A S a écrit : 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. [Netbeans_javadoc.png] Best regards Abhinav On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:33 PM Richard Grin <richard.g...@univ-cotedazur.fr<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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
