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Bug 153814

Summary: Extend Register/Variables/Expressions Details pane to support more than text
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: John Cortell <john.cortell>
Component: DebugAssignee: Platform-Debug-Inbox <platform-debug-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: vitaly.a.provodin
Version: 3.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description John Cortell CLA 2006-08-14 15:23:28 EDT 
Currently, the details pane in the Registers, Variables and Expressions view is an ISourceViewer. We would like to populate the pane with GUI-rich content via the details pane extension point. We are working on a contribution that will allow the pane to work as a more general canvas--as a composite, with special handling to continue support for having an ISourceViewer tenant.

Any concerns with the feature request and/or the proposed approach?
Comment 1 Darin Wright CLA 2006-08-14 18:07:19 EDT 
One thing to consider is that the workbench has (in the past) had a plan item to support nested components. This will allow for proper action contribution, etc., from standard extension points. I'm not sure if it will be on the 3.3 plan yet (still waiting to see). However, we want to avoid doing "plumbing" work/API that should be in the workbench layer.
Comment 2 John Cortell CLA 2006-08-14 18:16:50 EDT 
Fair enough. We'll implement this as a private "hack" in our internal version of the 3.2 platform and defer a permanent solution/contribution until the right workbench infrastructure is in place.
Comment 3 Curtis Windatt CLA 2006-11-15 15:26:12 EST 
Related to bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=75852
Bug 75852 has been re-opened for 3.3
Comment 4 Darin Wright CLA 2006-11-15 16:16:21 EST 
marking as dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75852 ***