Hello,
I am trying to inspect strings in the debugger (multiple lines, about 2-4KB
each) and the experience
is very unpleasant ('Develope with Pleasure'(TM), remember ;-) ).
Here are few methods I tried:
Method 1: Position the mouse over the String variables - a popup window with
the string value is displayed.
Problems:
* Only the first 20-40 lines are displayed with no option to scroll.
* The popup window disappears after few seconds
Method 2: Evaluate myString.toString().
Problems:
* The string is display in a single line and truncated. Right clicking on
View toString(), helps a little bit and displays the entire string (strange,
the evaluated expression already contains toString()) but still as a single
line with strange chars for the CR/LF.
Method 3: Open an inspector and view the internals of the String object.
Problems:
* The string value is displayed as an array of chars which makes it very
difficult to examine the content.
* A lot of clutter with all the String internal stuff like
'ctbConverter=null' (whatever this means ;-)).
I must be missing something fundemental here. With all the advanced
factoring IDEA provides, there must be a better way to inspect such a common
type like String. Right ?
Thanks,
Tal
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