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See attached screen shot - any sufficiently long tooltip is clipped at the edge of the editor. They should probably be htmlized and wrapped as necessary.
Created attachment 40063 [details] Screen shot
Not very nice.
BTW, if you want really performant line wrapping, org.openide.awt.HtmlRenderer contains the code to do it, but the constant for specifying it is blocked by default - if you wanted to petition to turn it on, it could probably get you better performance than Swing's html rendering.
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Considering all the duplicates, the severity of the productivity loss by netbeans users and the relative ease of the potential fix, it might be a good idea to make this P2 soon.
Made P2. Justification: It's really frustrating when you get a popup that gives you just enough information to know that there is a problem, but not enough to know what the problem is. In other words, having no popup would be better than having one that gives a user *almost* enough information to solve the problem. Overall, we need an API for doing popups and to make this consistent across NetBeans - right now everybody invents their own popup code and there is no consistency. But we certainly know where all the popups are and can make them consistent and usable for 6.0 without such an API.
ToolTipSupport now supports both plain text and html. While html inherently supports line wrapping no special handling was needed for html tooltips. For plain text line wrapping is supported for single line tooltips, which should be the majority of annotation tooltips in the IDE. Multiline tooltips are assumed to be pre-formatted in some way and are displayed as they come. I think this considerably improves the situation, even though there still can be tooltips that won't fit the available space even when line wrapped. I'm not sure how this should be solved, but it certainly won't be easy. One way could be to copy what Eclipse does by providing a shortcut, which changes a tooltip window into a scrollable component, which can gain focus and then be controlled by keyboard and mouse. Checking in ToolTipSupport.java; /cvs/editor/libsrc/org/netbeans/editor/ext/ToolTipSupport.java,v <-- ToolTipSupport.java new revision: 1.36; previous revision: 1.35 done
Since tooltips are still truncated, is there another issue tracking this ? The tooltip for the watch expressions in the Watch window are not truncated, so why can't the same be applied to the Editor?