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Bug 36443

Summary:	Expose getElementByOffset() as a public API
Product:	java	Reporter:	_ pkuzel <pkuzel>
Component:	Unsupported	Assignee:	issues@java <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	Keywords:	API
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	30599

Description _ pkuzel 2003-10-06 09:45:35 UTC

I would like programatically access current
position in Java editor. I'm interested in
semantics access:

   String string = "";
   string.toString|();  // | = caret position

returns something like:

  toString method in String class

Comment 1 _ pkuzel 2003-10-06 09:49:01 UTC

See dumb (non semantics) implementation GetJavaWord.forPane()
<http://javadoc.netbeans.org/source/browse/javadoc/src/org/netbeans/modules/javadoc/search/GetJavaWord.java?rev=1.14.16.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=prj40_prototype>.

Comment 2 Martin Matula 2004-11-12 13:27:52 UTC

We have JMManager.getElementByOffset() which seems to do exactly what
you need. However, this is not a public API. We should publish it in 4.1.

Comment 3 Tomas Hurka 2005-07-29 16:50:47 UTC

Fixed in issue #59339. 
Resource.getElementByOffset() is now available in API.

Comment 4 Quality Engineering 2007-09-20 12:04:55 UTC

Reorganization of java component