Re: The screwdriver is back!

Cau,

I don't know what is more ugly, screwdriver or the green ones. Maybe HIE will 
come up with something nicer.

I agree with having the hint, but I disagree that it would help to get rid of 
the icons.

1) If there is not the @Override in the then there would a warning but the 
warning icon does not show what warning that is.

2) Clicking the icon gets you to the super method. Clicking a hint or @Overrides 
annotation obviously doesn't. Go To super implementation is less discoverable IMO.

3) Id the navigation does not work please file a bug.

Hrebejk

Jesse Glick wrote:
> For a while we had overrides/implements icons which were green "O"s and 
> "I"s, which was easy enough to remember, if not very elegant. Now we are 
> back to a cleaned-up version of the 5.x icons.
> 
> http://deadlock.nbextras.org/fisheye/changelog/netbeans/java/editor?cs=MAIN:phrebejk:20070221161628 
> 
> 
> Why the screwdriver, or whatever it is?
> 
> For that matter, why do we need two different icons? IMHO we could just 
> use the "overrides" icon. All I usually care about is knowing that this 
> method's signature is constrained by some supertype, i.e. that the 
> @Override annotation could be used. The details are available in the 
> tooltip if you care anyway.
> 
> More radical idea: get rid of the override/implements annotations 
> completely for 1.5+ sources. Instead, add an editor hint to add 
> @Override to any method which could use it but does not currently have 
> it. (Jackpot has a transformer like this too.) I would actually find 
> this more valuable - @Override helps prevent stupid mistakes when 
> editing supertypes (just as C#'s language keyword does), and once your 
> code is fully @Override-annotated, you won't need to see the distracting 
> editor glyph icons any more. "Go to Super Implementation" would then 
> take care of the navigation aspect of the current annotations. (Assuming 
> it actually worked - currently it doesn't.)

> -J.
>