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sirbender
Idea to improve JavaDoc support !
Nov 1st, 2006, 8:25am  
I am using processing together with eclipse already for a long time. What annoys me a little bit is the fact, that if e.g. go with the cursor over setup() in eclipse and hit F2 you get the normal JavaDoc comment which is empty.

However on the processing webpage there is a neat description of the setup() method: http://processing.org/reference/setup_.html

I would like to get this info and add it to the JavaDoc of each method, field or constant. You think somebody already did it ?

I would like to hear the opinion of Fry and Casey on that idea...

Cheers,
sb
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membla
Re: Idea to improve JavaDoc support !
Reply #1 - Dec 14th, 2006, 11:35pm  
I very much would like this too. Right now I am stuck using the online help - by the way, could this not be easily integrated in the eclipse F1 help panel?
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fry
Re: Idea to improve JavaDoc support !
Reply #2 - Dec 15th, 2006, 3:56pm  
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb_beta/YaBB.cgi?board=Suggestions;action=display;num=1165281271

we haven't done this in the past because:

+ including the reference in the source will double or triple the size of the .java files, which will make them hell for me to navigate.

+ our main target audience is not advanced users with eclipse.

+ we'd need to rebuild our reference system to synchronize between the two. this is a lot of work.

that said, we have more and more people using eclipse, so someday we'll have to do this.
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