Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
anyway. Has anyone considered adding filtering to the Debugger (in my case the Glamorous Debugger) in a way that not all instance variables values are shown in the value pane?
Well a kind of watch as in other debuggers. You just can "ask" to watch e.g field firstName but not lastName or something like that. Even if I try to keep the information down some classes still do have a lot of elements (think of articles, which usually have at least some kind of id, a description, a price tag, but also some other information (be it internal or extenal for the programm)
I still fondly remember the Watch window from Turbo Pascal 30 years ago. You could also define expressions that updated every step so that you could drill down in data structures. I don't know what that would mean in Smalltalk terms. I guess you'd have to be more careful those expression had no side effects, or otherwise copy the target object of each message before it is sent. cheers -ben