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Bug 186561

Summary:	the '$'' button does not work on formatted values
Product:	debugger	Reporter:	ecastro <ecastro>
Component:	Java	Assignee:	Martin Entlicher <mentlicher>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description ecastro 2010-05-23 15:57:04 UTC

The "Show variable as toString() or formatted value" (a.k.a. the '$' button of the debugger) does not work on formatted values.
User-defined formatted values are show whatever the state of the button.
It is very annoying when you has a list of values to format and the formatted value are long to compute.

It worked well in 6.8

A third state might be useful for this button :
– No toString()
– toString() only
– toString() and formatted value.


Product Version = NetBeans IDE Dev (Build nbms-and-javadoc-5213-on-100521)
Operating System = Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_13
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 11.3-b02

Comment 1 Martin Entlicher 2010-11-30 11:03:43 UTC

Formatters can be disabled in Tools Options (there's "Open Formatters Options" button in Variables view below the "$" button).

Comment 2 Martin Entlicher 2015-09-04 13:29:02 UTC

The '$' button was removed, since it duplicated the "String Value" column.
There's a button for visual property editors instead and formatters can be customized in options (there's an options button as well).