posted 18 years ago
There are a number of options (Eclipse Views) such as the JavaDoc View and the Declaration view. Or F3 to bounce through to a method's source. Ypu couldn't just generically bounce through to a class's JavaDocs, because unfortunately, not everyone provides JavaDocs (though they SHOULD) and even if they do, you have to have a (list of) place(s) to retrieve the compiled docs from.
Although, as far as I can figure from your description, you're looking for some sort of popup Winhelp app, like maybe what you see when you browse JavaDocs in a framed HTML display.
Actual WinHelp support wouldn't be appropriate, since it's only applicable to Windows, and some of us do most of our Eclipse work on non-Windows machines, so we'd not appreciate a feature we couldn't have in both places. Plus, IIRC, WinHelp's been known to possess a security vulnerability or two.
The Eclipse help facility can be customed, BTW. It's using JavaHelp, I believe.
I've never found the Eclipse help features to be deficient, myself.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.