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Bug 241555 - [80cat] ctrl + hover no longer shows constant values
Summary: [80cat] ctrl + hover no longer shows constant values
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: java
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Editor (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0
Hardware: PC Mac OS X
: P2 normal (vote)
Assignee: Dusan Balek
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Reported: 2014-02-07 23:03 UTC by kidnapper
Modified: 2014-02-19 02:47 UTC (History)
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Description kidnapper 2014-02-07 23:03:59 UTC 
For example if there is the following code snippet:
public static final String EQUALS = "=";

if I press Command on OSX (so Ctrl everywhere else) and try to hover over EQUALS, it usually turns EQUALS into a link and a yellow tooltip appears. This tooltip no longer appears to show the actual value of the constant. This was quite a useful feature as it was possible to retrieve the value of the constant (sometimes even when it was a result of concatenations of constant values) without the need of actually navigating to the source code.

This issue may be related to Bug 95691.

p.s. I've marked this as P2 as it has bad effect on the user experience.
Comment 1 MackSix 2014-02-10 04:16:31 UTC 
For me, in Windows 7 ctrl+hover does not work if the mouse cursor is over a member and is stationary before I press Ctrl. If I hold down Ctrl and then move the mouse cursor over a member, then the popup shows. 

Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201402060001)
Java: 1.8.0; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.0-b69
Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0-b128
System: Windows 7 version 6.1 running on amd64; Cp1252; en_US (nb)
Comment 2 Dusan Balek 2014-02-13 09:47:52 UTC 
Fixed in jet-main.

http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/42f6d898032b
Comment 3 Quality Engineering 2014-02-19 02:47:47 UTC 
Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201402190001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)

Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/42f6d898032b
User: Dusan Balek <dbalek@netbeans.org>
Log: Issue #241555: ctrl + hover no longer shows constant values - fixed.