Question

Is there a Netbeans Object Explorer equivalent of the Visual Studio Object Explorer? If not is there one in any of the Eclipse releases (i.e. Helios)?

Just a useful tool that I use a lot in Visual Studio and miss in Netbeans. I have to use the intellisense to look for classes from the code editor.

Screenshot of VS2008 Object Explorer:

Thanks

Andez

Answer 1

Yes it is:

• Navigator Window – shows all members, methods etc. of your class
• Javadoc Window – shows the javadoc (there’s one for showing the sourcecode as well, also shows up eg. C/C++ documentation)
• Typing eg. System. will show you all methods / members of this class, including full javadoc of it
• Classes Window – Class-browser (C/C++)
• ctrl + left mouse will open the full sourcecode of the file, additional it will be displayed at the Navigation Window (see above)
• Open Libraries in the tree view shows you all libraries of you project, you now can browse through all your packages, classes, interfaces, methods, fields, … as you much as you need

Here’s a goog screenshot from the internet: http://pliki.onet.pl/zdjecia/pliki/n/netbeans-cpp.jpg (showing C/C++)