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Bug 13003

Summary:	Temporary error message cannot be obtained using keyboard
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Kai-Uwe Maetzel <kai-uwe_maetzel>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	usability
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	2.0 F1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Nick Edgar

2002-04-08 11:45:00 EDT

Build 20020404

The temporary error squiggles are nice, but we need a way of seeing the error 
message using keyboard only.
This is both an accessibility and a usability issue, since I don't want to use 
the mouse when typing, even if I can.

Suggestions:
- show error in status line when caret is in a squiggle
- show in window for quick fix
- or do both

Comment 1 Adam Kiezun

2002-04-08 12:21:41 EDT

F2 works for me

Comment 2 Nick Edgar

2002-04-08 13:00:08 EDT

Sure enough, although Show Javadoc is not the obvious choice for this.
I did look through the menus to see if one would let me do this, and did not 
guess that Show Javadoc would do it.

Comment 3 Erich Gamma

2002-04-09 05:25:47 EDT

Show JavaDoc is a too specific name. Suggest to rename to show Quick Info

Comment 4 Tod Creasey

2002-05-29 09:09:26 EDT

Removing accessibility tag as keyboard access is possible. Only a usuability 
issue.

Comment 5 Kai-Uwe Maetzel

2002-06-05 08:38:14 EDT

Label is now "Show Tooltip Description". Build F1.

Comment 6 Dirk Baeumer

2002-06-13 11:35:46 EDT

Verified on F3