From c6bcbb58982e519b446b363a4a73b0e750ad5d39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Bradley M. Froehle" <brad.froehle@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 00:04:57 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Show class init and call tooltips in notebook.

Closes #1094.
---
 .../frontend/html/notebook/static/js/codecell.js    | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/js/codecell.js b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/js/codecell.js
index 8ca5eb6e321..971a1c9c728 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/js/codecell.js
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/js/codecell.js
@@ -162,9 +162,16 @@ var IPython = (function (IPython) {
     }
 
     CodeCell.prototype.finish_tooltip = function (reply) {
-        defstring=reply.definition;
-        docstring=reply.docstring;
-        if(docstring == null){docstring="<empty docstring>"};
+        // Extract call tip data; the priority is call, init, main.
+        defstring = reply.call_def;
+        if (defstring == null) { defstring = reply.init_definition; }
+        if (defstring == null) { defstring = reply.definition; }
+
+        docstring = reply.call_docstring;
+        if (docstring == null) { docstring = reply.init_docstring; }
+        if (docstring == null) { docstring = reply.docstring; }
+        if (docstring == null) { docstring = "<empty docstring>"; }
+
         name=reply.name;
 
         var that = this;