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Zoltán
Zoltán

Reputation: 22156

Is there a plugin for Eclipse that immediately evaluates a highlighted expression?

A colleague of mine uses Netbeans, and I noticed a tremendously useful feature it has in debug mode: it immediately shows what a highlighted expression evaluates to in a tooltip. I'm not sure whether this is a standard feature in Netbeans, but I would definitely find it useful in Eclipse as well.

Does anyone know a plugin or a similar way of using this in Eclipse?

EDIT: Eclipse provides tooltips for single variable evaluation and expressions evaluation in the expressions view. This is not what I need. In Netbeans, you can highlight an expression (possibly containing more than one variable) and it gets evaluated in a tooltip.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 264

Answers (3)

Ivan Ferrer Villa
Ivan Ferrer Villa

Reputation: 2158

Three years later (don't know if it was before) you can Inspect the selected expression.
Select it, right click and choose Inspect, or press Ctrl+Shift+I (personally I changed that shortcut to one more reachable F12).

Upvotes: 0

mishadoff
mishadoff

Reputation: 10789

In Eclipse debug mode you can add needed expression to Expression view and check its value or you can hover mouse over variables and check theirs values

Upvotes: 2

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 8100

In Eclipse, when you're running your program in the debugger, you should be able to add a Watcher for a variable, or just simply evaluate an expression (I believe) in the Watcher tab. Sorry, I don't actually use Eclipse full-time, this is just from memory as I have used it in the past...

Upvotes: 0

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