[DrJava] [ drjava-Feature Requests-761270 ] Config Option Descriptions

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Feature Requests item #761270, was opened at 2003-06-26 09:04
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Category: User interface
Group: Small (< 1 pair-week)
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Neal Horowitz (nrhorowitz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Config Option Descriptions

Initial Comment:
Story:
A new user to DrJava is trying to set up his
preferences.  While browsing the various configuration
options, the user comes upon an option whose use is not
immediately apparent.  Confident that the DrJava
developers would provide him with help in this
situation, the new user hovers the mouse over the
option, and a tooltip pops up with a complete
description of the option.  The user is then able to
configure his DrJava more intelligently.

This would probably be fairly straightforward to
implement.  Each Option would have a method like
"getDescription()" to give detailed information as to
its function.  Each OptionComponent would then merely
have to call JComponent.setToolTipText() with the
description.

This information would probably be optional, so as to
save implementing it for particularly braindead
options.  If setDescription() is never called, no
tooltip would be displayed.

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