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Bug 133777 - be able to bring up tooltip from keyboard
Summary: be able to bring up tooltip from keyboard
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Key bindings (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Svata Dedic
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Depends on: 92815
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Reported: 2008-04-23 16:38 UTC by mkatz
Modified: 2016-07-07 07:26 UTC (History)
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Description mkatz 2008-04-23 16:38:25 UTC 
In the text pane, we like to provide information to the users via the tooltip mechanisms. It would be nice to be able to
display these messages with a keyboard shortcut, instead of requiring the mouse to move over portion of text.
Comment 1 Jiri Prox 2008-04-24 08:04:22 UTC 
Sorry I don't quite understand this issue. Do you mean some specific tooltip in NB editor or displaying tooltips on
keyboard events generally?
Comment 2 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-04-25 08:55:04 UTC 
There already are shortcuts for displaying tooltips - eg. Ctrl+P for method parameters or Alt+Enter for hints. What
exactly are you missing? Could you give us an example? Thanks
Comment 3 mkatz 2008-04-25 13:26:18 UTC 
I mean for a general case. Let's say we're in debug mode and we attach a tooltip to variable name to display the value
of that variable. But the BuildToolTip action is only triggered after a mouse event. So we would have to use the mouse
to get that data value tip.
Comment 4 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-04-28 14:02:29 UTC 
Ok, so you want a shortcut, which would display a tooltip for the position where the caret is as if the user moved the
mouse pointer there and waited. Correct?
Comment 5 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-05-07 09:47:26 UTC 
From mkatz by email: "Yes, exactly."
Comment 6 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 07:26:38 UTC 
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue.

Thanks for your cooperation,
NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss