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Paul Kinnucan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Milan Zimmermann writes:
> > > J�rgen Jatzkowski writes:
> > > > Hi,
> > ...
> > > Paul Kinnucan writes:
> > >
> > > No. However, you should be aware that JDEbug is of alpha quality.
> > > It has not received much attention over the last two years because
> > > JDE users seemed more interested in other things like Ant support,
> > > hierarchical projects, and field and method completion.
> > >
> > > I am now starting to devote most of my time to debugger support
> > > so the situation should improve. My first priority is to provide
> > > solid support for jdb because jdb is a more mature, though less
> > > capable, debugger. I then plan to work on JDEbug.
> >
> > I was wondering what % of people here use jdb vs JDEBug (not that I would
> > want my personal preference to JDEBug to affect your priorities). JDEBug,
> > even with some the quirks, was the main reason I started using JDE as a
> > "full-circle" development environment, apart from using emacs to edit Java
> > files. I am glad the debugging environment will improve.
> >
> > Are there some features of your "near-future" jdb changes that will affect
> > JDEBug immediately as well? (I am guessing auto-save of break point could be
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> * value of local variable at point is automatically displayed in tooltip on
> Emacsen that support tooltips or minibuffer (emulates a tool tip).
Are you putting the tooltip at (point) or around the mouse? If you are putting
it at the (point) I want to take a look at your source :). I have been wanting
to do this for a while (put a tooltip at the point) but couldn't think of a
clean way of handling it .
> * elimination of any dependency on gud (this dependency was crippling further
> development of the jdb interface)
>
> * replacing gud with the JDE's own object-oriented generalized debugger
> interface. This will allow both jdb and JDEbug to have a common user
> interface and inherit common functionality such as breakpoint management and
> tooltip display of variables
>
> The next beta release (few days off) will contain some of this additional
> functionality and I hope to release additional features at a more rapid pace
> as I have completed the object-oriented infrastructure required to make it
> happen.
sweet!
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