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I would like to see: 1. Name of the variable (icon should indicate modifiers) 2. Actual Type 3. Value 4. Declared type (because the declared type may be different from actual type) 5. Declaring type (because a field may be an inherited field) 6. Object id Sorting based on all columns. Ability to see the long value strings in a detail pane. Ability to display value using special formats based on the actual type and/or declared type. Directly modify values of primitive types and string variables. Directly modify values of Dates, Colors using property editors (may be asking g for too much). Copying the contents of the table as comma separated values or XML.
Created attachment 21317 [details] This view may give you an idea of what I am suggesting. Only thing is Object Explorer is reflection based tool and shows values in current JVM. (See contrib to try out ObjectExplorer).
Check out: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/scblog?entry=jpda_java_debugger_locals_view http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/scblog?entry=jpda_java_debugger_locals_view1
OK, this is doable -> Will be considered. Note that it is already possible to directly modify values of primitive types and strings (just double click end edit the value in Local Var window).
I would also like to see the popup actions to jump to the Declared type and the Actual type of the variables. Eclipse debugger supports all these functions.
Set target-milestone of open issue to TBD (was < 7.3, f.e. 6.8), so the issue doesn't get lost.
Set target-milestone of open issue to TBD (was < 7.3, f.e. 6.8), so the issue doesn't get lost. This time the target milestone is really set.