Description Martin Olsson 2005-08-04 08:46:24 EDT

I'm coding an Eclipse plugin right now and while doing this I tend to use the 
following method quite alot:

  MessageDialog.openInformation()

One very annoying thing that I've noticed is the following. Suppose 
MessageDialog has not previously been used in the current source file. Now I 
type:

  MessageDialog.

And wait for the content assist features, however it never appears. Thus I 
press the CTRL-SHIFT-O keys to force Eclipse to understand, but still nothing. 
Instead it's whining about my syntax error. Thus I cant finish the line because 
I need content assist, and Eclipse wont give me content assist until I finish 
the line. Thus, I'm stuck in an annoying catch 22 situation. I typically sort 
to typing this instead:

  MessageDialog a;

And then press CTRL-SHIFT-O, get the import line. and the erase the " a;" part 
and type in my "." again. This is very very annoying and lot's of unecessary 
work. Why can't you please make Eclipse understand that SOMETHING. might be a 
someone about to call a static method (and thus organize imports should work in 
this situation). Please I can't live with an omnipresent CTRL-SHIFT-O feature, 
it's sooo nice. Thanks for your time.