Question

I installed the lastest version of ‘Eclipse for PHP’ (Eclipse Helios).

The PHP editor behaves really strange, compared to Zend Studio (also built on Eclipse) which I used before.

Sometimes when I’m typing in the PHP Editor strange random pastel-colored blockes appear everywhere, which seem to have no meaning at all… and a few seconds later they disappear again.

Another weird thing is that some lines are in italics, while there is no reason for that.

Did anybody else notice this?
What could cause these kind of things?

UPDATE:

I think it has something to do with Annotations. I have no idea how that all works, Eclipse is becoming some kind of a configuration nightmare….

Answer 1

The strange colors that I saw had to do with Annotations – PHP elements ‘read’/’write’ occurences

I unchecked the ‘Show in text’ for these annotations and it’s working ok now.