At 07:52 AM 9/15/99 +1200, you wrote:
>
>Is there a list for announcements of new beta/stable releases only? If
>not, could there be? :-)
>
Why?
There are two new lists for people who want to help develop the JDE (no
takers so far, see the Developer's Corner on the JDE website), but I
wouldn't want to confine announcements of new releases to those lists.
While we're on this topic, I have been working pretty steadily on the new
debugger, focusing on a set of commands for displaying values of variables.
My goal for the next release is to implement the following commands:
Command Description Status
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Show Variable Displays value of variable at point Done
If the variable is an array or object,
displays type and object ID.
Show Elements Shows elements of array ID. Done
Show Fields Shows fields of object ID Done
Show String Shows string of string object ID Done
Show Locals Shows values of variables local to the
current stack frame.
Evaluate Evaluates an arbitrary Java expression Done
Expression
Note: that these commands are only a first cut at providing the
user with the ability to inspect objects. Future release will include
automatic updating of a Local Variables buffer and an Object Browser that
will allow you to click on objects, arrays, and strings to view their contents.
The next release will also fix a few bugs in other parts of the JDE.
I expect to post the release (i.e., beta9) later this week.
- Paul
