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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - Business Developer
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Rational
Product family - Design & development
Product - Business Developer
Thank you for this suggestion. We we do not expect to implement it because we have not received the information needed for more than 6 months.
Thank you for this suggestion. However, we do not expect to implement it because we have not received the information needed for more than 6 months. Please provide the additional information and reopen it if you still need this functionality.
This has been reviewed by development. We think you want the editor to update to the current file and line being executed by the debugger, without having to use step. We believe that the debugger would not perform well when running with this type of feature enabled. It would be hard to see most of what is taking place, since things are executed so quickly and the editor would constantly be flashing.
We'd like to offer a counter proposal, which will provide the same type of information you request without having much of an affect on performance. We will provide a new view called "EGL Debug Trace" which has a checkbox to enable tracing. When this view is open and the option to enable tracing is turned on, the debugger will print each statement as it's being run. This provides information about what's being done without the user having to manually step through the code. If the user wishes to halt execution so that variables can be inspected, there is already a "suspend" button in the Debug view that does this. The value displayed for a statement will not be the original line of code from the source file, but will instead be a string representation of the IR. If you click on a statement from this view and it has corresponding source available, we will open the source file and highlight the line for the statement. This view provides a recording of what was run so you can look back at the execution flow. The view will have the option to limit the number of lines of output, just like in the Console view. Changes to the tracing enablement will take immediate effect, and the debug session will not need to be restarted (this lets you narrow the scope of what gets traced). The EGL interpretive debugger will support this new view but the EGL Rich UI debugger will not.
Please let us know if you are OK with our proposal.