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Hi, the method PropertySheetTab.getToolTipTextForProperty() prepends a "Read/Write-Indicator" (like "(r/w) ") to the shortDescription obtained from the given Node.Property. Unfortunaly this makes it impossible to have HTML-formatted descriptions displayed correctly (e.g. "<html><b>My</b> property</html>" becomes "(r/w) <html><b>My</b> property</html>"). "Branding-away" by setting the prefix strings from Bundle.properties (CTL_Property_Read_Yes etc.) to empty does not solve the problem, too, as the code still prepends a "hardcoded" space character. So, either the short description should be "decorated" in a HTML-sensitive manner, or not at all. This one hurts a bit, since inserting "<br>" using HTML formatting is currently the only way i am aware of to have tooltips longer than a few words be "readable" displayed in NetBeans.
Adding to property sheet rewrite umbrella - PropertySheetTab will be gone, as will the "(r/w)".
Cc'ing myself since we *might* be interested in eventually using multi-line tooltips in some places.
Fixed - new property sheet committed. No more "(r/w)" in tooltips.
closed