Signature Help displays the signature of a method in a tooltip when a user types the parameter list start character (typically an opening parenthesis). In our latest release, we have made some major improvements to this feature:<\/p>\n
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- We added the capability so that the signature help can be triggered automatically<\/li>\n
- We also added two settings to control 1)<\/strong> whether the signature help needs to triggered automatically 2)<\/strong> whether the detailed method description needs to show automatically (this means both<\/strong> the signature and detailed documentation of the method will be displayed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Here is a demonstration of this feature<\/p>\n
![\"Signature](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/java\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2022\/05\/signaturehlp_Trim.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nThe settings to control how you would like to customize the signature help behavior can be found in the following screenshot:<\/p>\n
![\"Signature](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/java\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2022\/05\/signaturehelp.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nIf you are interested, you can also see a more detailed list of how you can utilize these improvements in the original PR<\/a> here<\/p>\n
Control Insert \/ Replace Mode for Code Completion<\/strong><\/h4>\n
In Visual Studio Code, when you accept a code completion suggestion, you can either overwrite or insert. This behavior can be changed in the “Editor > Suggest: Insert Mode” setting. However, in the past, this feature might not work for Java code as it requires LSP to adopt it. In our latest release, we have made some changes so now it fully works with our Java extensions. In addition, you can use Shift<\/strong> key to switch between two modes on the fly! Here is a quick demo:<\/p>\n
![\"Insert](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/java\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2022\/05\/insertreplace.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nThe setting to set this preference can be found here:<\/p>\n
![\"Insert](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/java\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2022\/05\/insertreplace.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nWe hope these user experience improvements can really help to speed up your coding productivity!<\/p>\n
Gradle Improvements<\/strong><\/h4>\n
As we shared in our roadmap<\/a> previously, build tools is one of our major focuses. We are glad to share that in this area we are working very closely with Gradle Enterprise<\/a> to improve our Gradle for Java<\/a> extension.<\/p>\n
In May, we have a few things to highlight:<\/p>\n
Pin Favorite Task<\/strong><\/h5>\n
When working with Gradle projects, it is quite common for a developer to repeatedly run some tasks<\/a>. To save developers time, we have now provided a feature that allows you to “pin” a task at the top of the project view so that it’s easy to find the task and run it again. You can even pass it with an argument. Here is a demo of this feature.<\/p>\n
![\"Pin](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/java\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2022\/05\/pintask.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nBug fixes – Support Multi-level Projects and Chinese Encoding Issue<\/b><\/h5>\n
An issue<\/a> was reported from the community that when our extension searches for a task in a multi-level project, it will duplicate the task indefinitely. This is because of the incorrect usage of a Gradle API call. We have fixed<\/a> this issue in our latest release.<\/p>\n