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Summary: | Enable "go to type source" from Variables window | ||
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Product: | debugger | Reporter: | Petr Somol <psomol> |
Component: | Java | Assignee: | Martin Entlicher <mentlicher> |
Status: | VERIFIED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | markiewb |
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 7.3 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows 7 | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
Attachments: | situation when going to source through Variables would help |
Dup of https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81925. Already fixed in NB7.4 - http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeans_74_NewAndNoteworthy *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 81925 *** Verified. |
Created attachment 121850 [details] situation when going to source through Variables would help When debugging NetBeans sources I often find myself in a situation where a for-cycle is looped over lookup instances of an interface, while I would need to see the sources of the particular instance. The trouble here is that there is no way to jump straight to the source of a particular instance, because it is not directly referenced from the debugged source, so nothing like the usual action Ctrl-click on type name is available. However, when debugging, the current instance is displayed in Variables window. Intuitively I right-clicked the type in question in Variables window hoping to find "Go to Source" action but this is not implemented. See attachment for a situation like I have just described. I believe it would be quite practical to enable "Go to Source" from Variables right-click menu because for-cycling through concrete instances only by means of their common supertype/interface only is a common pattern.