Customize class members and methods showed by IDE

Is anyway to customize the output of the class members and methods show by IDE when you code a class?
In detail:
If you have a class A:
A myClass = new A();
and you tipe myClass.
then the IDE show you a list of class members and methods in a Dialog Box....
can you customize these????????
I want to set another output for these....
Thanks!

That's not the meaning of the question.....
When someone work with a Java IDE and are editing source, the IDE help you writing code showing you the members and methods of the object that you are working on, like these:
a.------------------------
| void setX(int x) |
| void setY(int y) |
These information is provided by the IDE. I think that it makes a special type of introspection on classes ..... but a really strong one, because it can access to private members and methods....
I want to customize these behaviour....... and i want the IDE's show only the strings that i want....
For exemple:
a.------------------------
| to establish X |
| to establish Y |
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