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| Summary: | Fixed watches defined by special format of the expression. | ||
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| Product: | debugger | Reporter: | Marian Petras <mpetras> |
| Component: | Code | Assignee: | issues@debugger <issues> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | blocker | ||
| Priority: | P4 | ||
| Version: | 3.x | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
Target milestone -> 3.3.1. Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD. Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD. |
Imagine you have a watch named 'e' whose value is an object of type PropertyChangeEvent at a moment. The PropertyChangeEvent has a field named 'newValue' of type Object. At the moment, value of the field 'newValue' is an object of type Point: e.newValue = <some Point> Furthermore, you want to permanently watch value of field 'x' of this Point. Currently it is possible to create a "fixed watch" from 'e.newValue', expand the node that represent this "fixed watch" and watch value of its field 'x'. Enhancement: Allow to declare a "partially fixed watch" by entering a special expression as the value of property 'Name of variable' of a watch, e.g. by entering expression #(e.newValue).x you would watch a (non-fixed) value of field 'x' of a fixed instance (referred to by the current value of 'e.newValue').