Reputation: 21236

Turn off tooltips in Eclipse / Aptana

I don't know if anyone has noticed that Eclipse has this annoying feature where it needs to show a useless tool-tip when hovering just about anything.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to completely kill all tool-tip behavior in Eclipse / Aptana?

Thanks

Upvotes: 16

Answers (7)

MCardinale

Reputation: 1406

I was completely annoyed with Aptana's tip tool text over my code. I figured out how to disable it:

Window > Preferences > Aptana Studio > Content Assist > Show information on hover > Off

I'm using Aptana 3.

Upvotes: 5

Rockystech

Reputation: 3086

This is the answer. Change the Windows regedit. HKEY_CURRENT_USER ->Control Panel -> Mouse -> mouse -> MouseHoverTime Change its value to be 400 (4 seconds delay)

http://untamedmind.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/changing-the-mousehovertime-add-delay-on-the-tooltips-pop-up/

Upvotes: 0

diesel

Reputation: 21

Another thing which really annoys me on Eclipse are the light bulbs in the left part which hide breakpoints, and which are really useless.

To suppress these, go to windows>preference>java>editor and then uncheck "Light bulb for quick assists".

If you dont have this on your eclipse version, try a help search with "light bulb".

Upvotes: 2

Drew

Reputation: 497

I agree, hints can be really annoying, but there are times when they can be a really useful quick reference - like finding var values during debugging, or required parameter types for a method etc.

So instead of disabling them altogether, or continually enbaling/disabling through the Preferences, I go to Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Hovers > Combined Hover, and add Alt to the Pressed key modifier while hovering field below.

This way if you want to quickly see hints just hold the Alt key down.

Upvotes: 6