— Restart Eclipse with the "-clean" command line parameter.
— Make sure you have Eclipse 3.2RC3+ and the lastest JDK 1.5 for MacOS installed and that the Eclipse platform itself is using that JDK. JDocEditor uses the SWT_AWT bridge, which has been known to present problems for MacOS in the past. See, Bugzilla Bug 67384 and Apple SWT Compatibility
— For versions less than 3, the Outline View must be open in the current perspective for JDocEditor to track focus in the active JDT editor. While the Outline View must be open, it need not be showing. Just minimize or tuck the view behind some other view. OTOH, Outline is quite helpful view to use whenever editing.
— For versions less than 3, make sure the Outline View is linked with the active JDT editor.
— Make sure Eclipse comment formatter is enabled and set to format HTML tags.
— For versions less than 3, the Outline View must be set to show those member types. Otherwise Eclipse won't generate the necessary selection events for JDocEditor to track the Field or Member selected.
— Eclipse typically fails to generate any event usable by JDocEditor when switching between JDT editors. Whenever this happens, just click in the JDT Editor or on a desired Java element in the Outline View.
— CSS support is generally limited to CSS1. With a suitable CSS style sheet, JDocEditor will display text in a style that will match your 'printed' JavaDoc.
— JDocEditor has to have focus for the toolbar tooltips to respond to hover. Even then, they seem a bit slow to show.
— Clicking a hyperlink should open the Eclipse help browser to the JavaDoc page for that element. JDocEditor can generally open a page in a package available on your local network or accessible over the Internet.
— Need to go to the JavaDoc Location preference page in JDocEditor (Preferences -> JDocEditor -> JavaDoc Locations). Edit and, as needed, add entries for each JavaDoc package:
— Preferences ->Java->Code Style -> Code Formatter -> Edit -> Comments
— Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Code Templates
— Preferences -> Help
— Preferences -> General -> Web Browser