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Bug 190172

Summary:	show variable content when hover over variable in a running debug session
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Johannes Zillmann <jzillmann>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	Platform-Debug-Inbox <platform-debug-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Johannes Zillmann

2007-05-31 07:01:00 EDT

Like the javascript debugger from firebug (firefox plugin) do. This would be really cool!

Comment 1 Darin Wright

2007-05-31 09:09:49 EDT

The Java debugger does show variable values in hover when a thread is suspended. Is this what you are asking for? (Without a suspended thread/frame, there is no scope/context/location in which to evaluate a variables value).

Comment 2 Johannes Zillmann

2007-05-31 09:35:50 EDT

I see. My fault.
But is it possible to configure the hover-time for the debug variable values?
Other then immediate hover seems a bit useless to me.
Would it also be possible to expand the functionality for methods with return types ?

Comment 3 Darin Wright

2007-05-31 09:43:07 EDT

Perhaps this is the same request as bug 69990? Performing evaluations has side effects that could be unwanted. Thus, we prefer to have the user perform explicit evaluations - i.e. Inspect/Display, instead.

Comment 4 Darin Wright

2007-06-04 15:58:49 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 69990 ***