Tooltips

A tooltip is a brief, informative message that appears when a user interacts with an element in a graphical user interface (GUI). In DVT tooltips are initiated through a mouse-hover gesture. Tooltips can be triggered from the following areas:

• Code

Place the mouse cursor over an identifier in the editor. A tooltip shows information about the element under cursor:

• the comment associated with the element’s declaration (written above or the side), or the LRM documentation for predefined API

• scoping information for types (enclosing package)

• the full signature of the element under cursor

• direction of ports, etc.

Tooltips are available for all the methods, fields, structs, actions, etc. from the source code files that DVT analyzes in your project.

• Problems

Place the mouse cursor over the problem highlighted range (squiggle underline).

The tooltip will display the error or warning message.