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Bug 113892 - Tooltip on byte[] variables to see their content as text
Summary: Tooltip on byte[] variables to see their content as text
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: debugger
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Java (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 blocker with 10 votes (vote)
Assignee: issues@debugger
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 155070
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Reported: 2007-08-27 19:35 UTC by ulfzibis
Modified: 2012-12-17 19:00 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description ulfzibis 2007-08-27 19:35:55 UTC
In the debuggers 'Local Variables' view it's often not very helpful to see the content of a byte[] only as a
space-wasting list of numerical numbers.

I more like to see the content as a text. So a tooltip would be very helpful. It should be in the size of those shown on
hovered items in the Navigator, and the default charset should be retrieved from the project's settings.

Additionally it would be helpful, if the list of byte[] content could be shown as hex values.
Comment 1 Roman Strobl 2008-02-12 10:47:53 UTC
I agree this would be useful.
Comment 2 ulfzibis 2008-02-12 11:18:29 UTC
I like to see this in 6.1.

Is this possible ?
Comment 3 Peter Pis 2008-04-10 22:53:58 UTC
Changing TM for open issues.
Comment 4 Petr Cyhelsky 2008-07-07 18:53:34 UTC
*** Issue 136229 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 ulfzibis 2008-10-02 14:10:09 UTC
Additionally please note the little different approach in duplicate issue 136229.
Comment 6 markiewb 2012-12-17 18:52:47 UTC
Set target-milestone of open issue to TBD (was < 7.3, f.e. 6.8), so the issue doesn't get lost.
Comment 7 markiewb 2012-12-17 19:00:40 UTC
Set target-milestone of open issue to TBD (was < 7.3, f.e. 6.8), so the issue
doesn't get lost. This time the target milestone is really set.