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Ok, cool.
Thanks!
Chris
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Chris Recoskie
Software Designer
IDE Frameworks Group
Texas Instruments, Toronto
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Mikhail Khodjaiants
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:02 AM
> To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] bug 39673
>
> Chris,
>
> The Expressions view implementation and corresponding core interfaces have
> been changed since Eclipse 2.x. This includes the generic "Add Watch
> Expression" action. When we change our implementation of expressions to
> adjust it woth 3.0 these bugs will be covered automatically.
>
> Mikhail Khodjaiants
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Recoskie, Chris" <crecoskie@xxxxxx>
> To: <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:49 PM
> Subject: [cdt-dev] bug 39673
>
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=39673
>
> I see from Sebastien's slides that he showed at the conference, that
> supposedly the following changes to the Expression View will be happening
> for CDT 2.0
>
> Expressions
> * Make persistent across workbench sessions
> * Add actions to the Expressions view
>
> Does this mean that someone will be committing a fix for this bug?
>
> Right now this bug is a real pain for us, as the "Add Watch Expression"
> entry in the context menu seems generic, but it is not. Really it's "Add
> Java Watch Expression" in disguise, and if you try to use it while
> debugging
> C/C++ programs, the Expression View will throw errors because you are not
> Java debugging and thus it can't evaluate the expression. Not exactly the
> best experience for our customers, who will most likely be Eclipse
> novices.
>
> I have been looking into fixing it myself over the past few days. So far
> the best solution I've thought of is to modify the text of the action
> contributed by JDT to reference "Java" (so that it's not confusing), and
> add
> some kind of extension point that would allow CDT and other contributing
> plugins to add their own Actions to the Expression View's context menu.
> After seeing that tidbit in the slides though, I thought I should check
> with
> someone, as it doesn't make sense for me to duplicate work :-)
>
> There are other options of course for a solution, but so far the above
> seemed the most attractive due to a) being relatively easy, and b) not
> requiring a lot of architectural rework.
>
> Any info or feedback will be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Chris
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> IDE Frameworks Group
> Texas Instruments, Toronto
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