Netbeans class + method dropdown combo, what you call it?

[Jacky Luk]

Like in Visual Studio, you can go directly to that method.
Side by side in VS. How do you get the same stuff in netbeans/eclipse?
Thanks
Jack

[Peter Johnson]

Not sure exactly what Visual Studio provides, you'll have to give a detailed description of exactly what it does.

In Eclipse, if you have an instance of a specific class, and type a period and then hit ctrl-space, you get a list of public methods and fields. You can restrict this list by typing the first few letters of the method/file. You can then use the arrow keys to scroll through the list, and for each one that has javadoc defined, Eclipse displays a pop window showing the Javadoc.

Additionally, if you have code where a method or field reference appears, you can right-click the method/field and select go to definition.

Is that what you were asking about, or is it some other capability?

[Martin Vashko]

I believe this feature is called "autocomplete". It works in my copy of NetBeans in exactly the same way as described by Peter in Eclipse. Googling netbeans autocomplete brings up questions on how to activate the feature in NetBeans, looks like due to some bug or misconfiguration NetBeans sometimes stops doing that.

If by "going directly to that method" you mean finding the declaration of a method, then this can be achieved by Ctrl-Click or Ctrl-B. This command is called "Go to declaration" in NetBeans (in the Navigate submenu). The Ctrl-B key can be remapped to something else, though.

[Jacky Luk]

Martin Vajsar wrote:I believe this feature is called "autocomplete". It works in my copy of NetBeans in exactly the same way as described by Peter in Eclipse. Googling netbeans autocomplete brings up questions on how to activate the feature in NetBeans, looks like due to some bug or misconfiguration NetBeans sometimes stops doing that.

If by "going directly to that method" you mean finding the declaration of a method, then this can be achieved by Ctrl-Click or Ctrl-B. This command is called "Go to declaration" in NetBeans (in the Navigate submenu). The Ctrl-B key can be remapped to something else, though.

I actually am talking about this

[Martin Vashko]

I don't have direct experience with Visual studio, but probably the closest think in NetBeans is Navigator (Windows/Navigating/Navigator). It takes much more screen estate, but you can have it minimized and click on it to bring it up. It only displays members of current class, to go to a different class, you'll use Navigate/Go To Type (Ctrl-O in Netbeans default keymap). In all Go To forms it is possible to use wildcards or camel case (eg. LiLi will match LinkedList and LineListener). (Recently I've found it is possible to use camel case in autocomplete too, it is very useful.)