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Bug 106049

Summary:	Add command to show current instruction
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Timothy Mowlem <tmowlem>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	JDT-Debug-Inbox <jdt-debug-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Timothy Mowlem

2005-08-04 10:13:50 EDT

When debugging a complex application with many classes and you pause at a
breakpoint, you move around between classes looking at code, variables, etc, and
it is very easy to forget where the current instruction pointer is located.

A very useful enhancement would be an extra menu command on e.g. the Run menu
which would show the class containing the current instruction and scroll so that
the current instruction is in the middle of the class view.

Comment 1 Darin Wright

2005-08-04 10:17:14 EDT

Simply re-select the top stack frame in the debug view. This will reposition 
the editor.

Comment 2 Timothy Mowlem

2005-08-04 14:57:41 EDT

Darin,

Sorry you're absolutely right. I wasn't sure that if you had previously scrolled out of view that the view 
would snap back when you select it again on the stack frame.

Cheers.

(In reply to comment #0)
> When debugging a complex application with many classes and you pause at a
> breakpoint, you move around between classes looking at code, variables, etc, and
> it is very easy to forget where the current instruction pointer is located.
> 
> A very useful enhancement would be an extra menu command on e.g. the Run menu
> which would show the class containing the current instruction and scroll so that
> the current instruction is in the middle of the class view.