Re: Patch for JSWAT 3.12

Hello Paulo,

Thank you for the patch. I have not looked at it yet, but will soon. It 
indeed sounds like a very good enhancement, one I had never thought of 
myself.

As for JSwat being a NetBeans plugin, the work had begun in the early 
part of the summer, but since then I have been remodeling our kitchen. 
Thus, progress on JSwat has slowed considerably. After the next release, 
sometime this month, I want to try to finish up the IDE plugin. The 
enhancement is being tracked via Bugzilla entry #1049.

Thanks again.

n


Paulo Ferreira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm including a patch I hope you will consider for the next version of
> JSwat.
> 
> All this patch does is add a feature I really missed from my old days of
> programming C++ in Visual Studio.
> 
> With this patch you can now add display modifiers to Watch variables.
> 
> Example:
> oThis,x (this means that all integer values will be displayed in Hex)
> oThis,ub (this means that char values will be displayed in UNICODE but
> the other integer values will display in Hex)
> 
> I have added 5 modifiers:
> u - Unicode
> s - String (toString)
> x - Hex
> b - Binary
> o - Octal
> 
> I was thing of maybe adding others such as:
> c - class
> 
> or adding more complex display modifiers:
> - to display binary values in groups of 4 (nibble) or 8 bits (byte).
> 
> This is an improvement on the Netbeans Watch, which does allow you,
> through a menu entry, to change to Hex the display of integers, but
> loses does changes every time you restart the debugger. Atleast this way
> the changes persist between debugging sessions.
> 
> I only implemented the changes for Primitive Values so I don't think
> they will work for java.lang.Integer Objects.
> 
> Just a little promo. JSwat is my Preferred Java debugger and I do hope
> that you will make it into to a netbeans module, in the near future, to
> substitue the Netbeans debugger.
> 
> TIA,
> Paulo Ferreira