Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Novice Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JavaDoc linking (Was: Aspect questions?) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 17:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Your Company Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <4f4a6b1d$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4f4ac151$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: aorhoX7wqL+zg222N4gRzA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120305-0, 2012-03-05), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:12715 Daniel Pitts wrote in news:PZ55r.26404$2q1.19251@newsfe06.iad: > On 3/5/12 7:33 AM, Novice wrote: >> Lew wrote in >> news:jj13jl$qre$1@news.albasani.net: >>> 'ArrayList' has its own URL, also, but yes. >> I intended to just give the direct URL but the URL in the browser >> doesn't change when I click on things in the API; it just says >> "http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/index.html" no matter what >> I click on. > Hint. Click on No Frames first. > > That leads to > > > You can then click on Frames again, which leads to: > > t.html> > > Which will load the main page, but redirect the main frame to the > ArrayList.html. Generally when pointing out JavaDocs, either form is > appropriate, however you can't use "#" to point to a specific section > when using the Frames version. For example, if I wanted to point you > to "contains" in ArrayList, I could use > > ains%28java.lang.Object%29> > > However, I have never been able to construct a "Frames" url that does > the right thing. > > Hopefully this helps you and others in the future. > Thanks, Daniel. It's a bit awkward - and not very intuitive - but that's not your fault :-) It gets me where I want to be ;-) -- Novice