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Bug 37886 - Filters for variables are missing
Summary: Filters for variables are missing
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: debugger
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: jrojcek
URL:
Keywords: RELNOTE, UI
: 37687 40478 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 33936
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Reported: 2003-12-09 12:49 UTC by Milan Kubec
Modified: 2004-11-10 13:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Milan Kubec 2003-12-09 12:49:27 UTC
There was a functionality of filtering out
variables according to their access modifiers
(public, private, protected). This functionality
has disapeared with new window system. Is there
going to be any replacement?
Comment 1 Maros Sandor 2003-12-12 11:23:07 UTC
I need at least a simple UI spec.
Comment 2 Maros Sandor 2003-12-12 11:51:47 UTC
*** Issue 37687 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 3 Jan Jancura 2003-12-12 12:24:32 UTC
I have decided to remove this functionality.
1) Its not compatible with new WindowSystem.
2) Its useless. 
3) It takes too much space on the screen.
Comment 4 Milan Kubec 2003-12-12 15:08:56 UTC
Well, I appreciate your effort to lower number of issues. But I want
clear statement from UI/HIE guys. Jano, please could you shed some
light into this, thanks.
Comment 5 _ gtzabari 2003-12-12 16:14:08 UTC
Jan,

   See issue #37687. We also need some of the other filters back like
"super" which I find very useful.
Comment 6 Jan Jancura 2003-12-17 15:10:45 UTC
I would like to clarify my comment.
I was not correct when I wrote that its my decision to remove Variable
Filters Toolbar. This toolbar was removed as a side effect of a new
Window System by window core team. This change is defined in WS UI spec:
http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/ws/ws_spec-netbeans_ide.html

Old code is not applicable for the new situation. So from my
(debugger) point of view the replacement for filterring functionality
is something like new feature.

We do not know how to replace this functionality in the new window
system, we do not have UI spec, we are late in development cycle. So,
I have decided to not produce any replacement for this functionality
to the nb3.6 release (at least).
Comment 7 Jan Jancura 2003-12-17 15:14:06 UTC
Gili,

can you describe me, how do you use "super" filter, and why do you
need it?
I am author of this toolbar, but I have never use it during a long
time this toolbar is in netBeans. I think that its useless:) even its
my "baby".

Hanz
Comment 8 Maros Sandor 2004-01-07 10:19:25 UTC
We need a new UI spec (feature specs) for features from old filter 
toolbar in case we want those features back. Else close this issue as 
won't fix.
Comment 9 jrojcek 2004-01-09 11:01:52 UTC
My evaluation:

- filtering of private, public and protected fields doesn't make much sense during 
debugging, as imprtance of field's value during debugging is not imposed by its 
access modifier.
- "super" filter might be nice in some cases, especially if the class and its superclasses 
do not have many fields.

Overall, this feature seems like a nice to have feature. Due to the resource constraint 
and not clear solution (how this feature should look like and where it should be 
placed) I suggest to postpone the resolution of this issue to a future release.
Comment 10 jrojcek 2004-01-17 16:18:44 UTC
I am decreasing priority - P3 seems more appropriate.
Comment 11 Maros Sandor 2004-02-25 15:40:01 UTC
*** Issue 40478 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 12 Maros Sandor 2004-03-01 15:57:06 UTC
We should mention in the 3.6 release notes that we dropped this 
feature.
Comment 13 Patrick Keegan 2004-03-01 16:49:21 UTC
OK. I'll simply say that the feature has been deleted. It seems that
there is no workaround, but it looks like people wouldn't care much
anyway.
Comment 14 Jiri Kovalsky 2004-03-12 13:25:57 UTC
Well, Gili Tzabari and Ian Sullivan are at least two known guys
requiring this feature back.
Comment 15 pgodeau 2004-03-24 09:29:20 UTC
Perhaps I'm not a "known guy" but I work with NetBeans every day, and
I use this feature. I'm somewhat baffled when I read some of the
comments above, and what takes "too much space on the screen" is not
the removed functionality, but all static and private fields in debug
window. Try for example to watch the content of a Map which has
Integer keys, or to debug Swing components which have hundreds of
static/private/protected fields in a complex hierarchy of
super-classes. (Not to mention the fact that debug window is now
horizontal by default, so you can watch only 6 or 7 fields.)
Comment 16 Jan Jancura 2004-06-17 16:41:54 UTC
Static filter has been replaced by "static" subnode.
Inherited filter has been replaced by "Inherited" subnode of fields.
Field node contains non-static, non-inherited fields only.

Public/Private/Protected filters does not have any replacements, but
they does not have a big sense during debugging. 

I think that all major usecases are covered now.
So, I think that issue is fixed.

Comment 17 Milan Kubec 2004-11-10 13:58:04 UTC
OK, verified.