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As one way of helping a user identify what state a debugging session is in, I think it would be useful if the debugging components that show data about the debugee (stack, threads, variables etc) changed their appearance when the debugee was executing. For instance, if all the text was drawn in a light grey, the user could still see what the state was when the program was last running, but would also get feedback that this information is "stale" and indirect information that the debugee is running. An alertnate approach would be to remove the information from these components at these times.
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
I do not want to remove content of Debugger Window when debugger is running. You will lose all context in this case (selected watches, expanded structures). May be we can remove it after some period... Draw it in light is a good idea, but there is no support for it in our Window System. What about some special toolbar in Debugger Window? Or some component / icon which will indicate debugger state? I am still not shure. Do you have some experiences from other IDE's?
I just looked at a couple common IDE's, and they generally don't update the views while the process is running. I know I've seen some IDE remove info, but I agree that this isn't a good solution. I guess I'm puzzled why the windowing system won't allow you to draw grey text in tables. Can't you just use a different cell renderer? My concern with the "draw in grey" approach is that it may be a performance problem, even if one delays the update to prevent redrawing after every step command.
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
In current NB versions state of debugee can be determined from enabled/dissabled actions in debugger toolbar. The state is also written in Debugger Console.
Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.