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Bug 191758

Summary:	See into String in the variables window
Product:	debugger	Reporter:	simpatico
Component:	Java	Assignee:	Martin Entlicher <mentlicher>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Other
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description simpatico 2010-11-09 17:17:24 UTC

I recall in earlier versions of netbeans I could expand the string variable and see the characters it's made up of. Now it appears as a Children.leaf node. See the characters I could see things the console prints as '?' but they are not shown in the debugger toString.

Comment 1 Martin Entlicher 2010-11-09 17:27:04 UTC

This is now configurable. Since usually one does not need to look into String's fields, they are not shown by default.
Please go to Tools -> Options -> Miscellaneous -> Java Debugger -> Variable Formatters and uncheck Default CharSequence Formatter. Then String objects should be expandable.