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| Summary: | NetBeans API Documentation Module needs to point/link to index instead of overview-summary | ||
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| Product: | java | Reporter: | _ wadechandler <wadechandler> |
| Component: | Javadoc | Assignee: | Jan Becicka <jbecicka> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | blocker | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 6.x | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
You can click on 'FRAMES'. Probably the original intent was to work around a bug in javax.swing.text.html code which would show HTML source for frames in a frameset, if using the internal web browser. Anyway that bug is no longer manifested, due to a change in NB editor kit registration. Nothing to do with apisupport, part of the javadoc module. I had tried clicking on Frames in one of the APIs, but it would solely show the frameset for the single API. That was why I started looking for index just like the link we click on when we go to platform.netbeans.org. index is a frameset with all the APIs classes, so I don't have to know which modules has a class to find it. I never could find a link from a single API which would take me to a frameset for all APIs like the main index does. Agreed. I am also not aware of any more reason to open overview-summary.html instead of index.html with frames. NetBeans docs is the reason to change it back since it is especially uncomfortable in this case. I will do it for NB 6.1. |
The NetBeans Documentation Module installs the Action to the JavaDoc references Help|Javadoc References|NetBeans API List which points to jar:file:///${userdir}/docs/NetBeansAPIs.zip!/overview-summary.html It seems it would be more useful to point to jar:file:///${userdir}/docs/NetBeansAPIs.zip!/index.html As this page includes the page currently referenced (Overview - overview-summary.html) yet also allows the user to immediately jump into the JavaDocs and browse by classes. I end up manually changing it to index every time I open it as I don't want to have multiple Windows or Tabs opened for every API unless I need to have one. Currently clicking on a link from that page opens a new window and even if it didn't would not be a navigable as the index.