debugger tooltips -- where gets value?

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From: Shawn Castrianni
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:12

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debugger tooltips -- where gets value?

I use the debugger tooltips and expressioninsight all of the time.  However,
I am wondering where the tooltips are getting the value to display.  It
usually displays the class name and the pseudo JVM memory address of the
Object.  That is sometimes useful, but perhaps always showing a toString()
on the selected Object would be better.  I verified JB is NOT showing the
toString of the selected Object by hovering over an object that had the
toString overridden to display a nice name.  Instead JB showed the standard
class name and pseudo JVM memory address.  Is there a way to quickly display
the toString of any variable I want.  I say quickly because having add a
watch expression, or doing an evaluate/modify is not quick.  I would almost
prefer a JB opentool plugin that makes the shift+hover do a toString popup.
Similar to a Ctrl+hover brings up the expressioninsight.

Shawn Castrianni

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