Re: Object tree in the evaluate dialog

The work involved for 2.x is probably not that extensive, though any
solution will likely be ugly in terms of design. I know of no one working
on such a feature, so by all means, give it a go.

This is a planned feature for 3.0, in which a simple design will be
employeed, utilizing the features of the NetBeans platform.

Thanks

n


Hari wrote:
> While evaluating in the Expression Evaluator dialog, I would like to
> be able to expand the result object for the fields and such. This is a
> standard feature in many debuggers, and as far as I can see, JSwat
> already has all the required code. In my initial investigation, it
> looks like we can expose some of the classes in LocalsPanel.java as
> public classes and use them in the EvaluateAction.java to show the
> result as a tree instead of just showing the toString() value. We
> should still be able to show the toString() value in the root node, to
> get best of both worlds.
>
> The only draw back I can see is when the result is a String value.
> When the text is multiline and long (such as when holding the content
> of a script or HTML in a variable), currently, you can select all and
> copy paste into another application to insevstigate further. May be we
> can support copying any tree node (including the root, which will have
> the toString() value) for this to be possible.
>
> I would appreciate any feedback on this enhancement. Please let me
> know if anyone is already working on it, or thought about it before.
> Otherwise, I would like to make this enhancement myself.
>
> Thank you,
> Hari
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-----------------------------296762964 wrote:
> While evaluating in the Expression Evaluator dialog, I would like to
> be able to expand the result object for the fields and such. This is a
> standard feature in many debuggers, and as far as I can see, JSwat
> already has all the required code. In my initial investigation, it
> looks like we can expose some of the classes in LocalsPanel.java as
> public classes and use them in the EvaluateAction.java to show the
> result as a tree instead of just showing the toString() value. We
> should still be able to show the toString() value in the root node, to
> get best of both worlds.
>
> The only draw back I can see is when the result is a String value.
> When the text is multiline and long (such as when holding the content
> of a script or HTML in a variable), currently, you can select all and
> copy paste into another application to insevstigate further. May be we
> can support copying any tree node (including the root, which will have
> the toString() value) for this to be possible.
>
> I would appreciate any feedback on this enhancement. Please let me
> know if anyone is already working on it, or thought about it before.
> Otherwise, I would like to make this enhancement myself.
>
> Thank you,
> Hari
> _______________________________________________
> jswat-dev mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://www.bluemarsh.com/mailman/listinfo/jswat-dev
>