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i see the problem on a php project : If you have selected a function name and invoque the "navigate/go to declaration" contextual sub menu (or the keyboard equivalent) you didn't go :( You have to unselect the function name and set the cursor anywhere in that function name and at this time it's working. Seen on Mac or PC. Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.0 (Build 201104080000) Operating System = Mac OS X version 10.6.7 running on x86_64 Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_24 Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 19.1-b02-334
Using the goto declaration function this way is expected by the programmers coming from a MS environment (Visual Studio, VB editor in the Office suite) where you highlight the function name and press shift F2 to go to the declaration. This is a regression from version 6.8, v6.9.1 suffers the same defect (php windows ide).
This is not related to the selection. There is important the caret position. And you are right, when the caret is after the name, Go to Declaration is not executed. BTW, one way how to navigate to the navigation is holding CTRL down and using mouse cursor. Then an indentificator under the mouse cursor is changed to a link.
Fixed in web-main and releases/release701 branch. As I have already mentioned the selection of an identifier is not important. The caret position direct, whether the declaration will be find or not.
Integrated into 'releases' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/releases/rev/18a613dff218 User: Petr Pisl <ppisl@netbeans.org> Log: #199329 - Go To Declaration trouble (transplanted from bbd8cae2fff94f03708a9c4f7ae3e78e9fdaefbc)
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/bbd8cae2fff9 User: Petr Pisl <ppisl@netbeans.org> Log: #199329 - Go To Declaration trouble