Paul, thanks for describing (and working on) the upcomming debug features, they will be very useful to have, looking forward to the next beta,
milan On December 30, 2001 10:32 am, you wrote: > 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 > > The near term improvements will be > > * jdb menu always appears on source buffer > > * breakpoint requests are highlighted in source buffer > > * breakpoint manager--a dialog buffer that displays > all breakpoints with checkboxes for deleting > and saving them selectively > > * debug toolbar--this will use the native GUI toolbar > on versions of Emacs that support it and a > separate window with button widgets on versions > of Emacs that don't support a native toolbar > > * value of local variable at point is automatically > displayed in tooltip on Emacsen that support tooltips > or minibuffer (emulates a tool tip). > > * 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. > > - Paul
