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Title: Feature Suggestion, related to new variable watch list capability
Post by: hanness on August 01, 2021, 03:44:19 am
Consider this low priority, but just something that I think could be helpful and may be easy to implement (hopefully!).

When you press F4 in debug mode, you get a list of all the variables used in the program so that you can select variables to watch. Since a list of all variables is already being gathered to be displayed here, it would be excellent if this list could be copied to the clipboard or to a file.

Maybe another option on that same F4 screen to copy the information displayed to a file or to the clipboard could be implemented.

I just think that it would be helpful to be able to save this list to aid in managing, cleaning up, organizing, etc. I have a program that currently shows 242 variables available when I press F4. I know that this doesn't include arrays (and I have a good number of those as well), but it would still be extremely useful.
Title: Re: Feature Suggestion, related to new variable watch list capability
Post by: FellippeHeitor on August 01, 2021, 11:23:35 am
I've added the ability to hit CTRL+C when the variable list is in focus to copy the contents to the clipboard. I don't have any more room for a dedicated button though, but this should suffice.

New dev build should be available soon, I'll let you know.
Title: Re: Feature Suggestion, related to new variable watch list capability
Post by: hanness on August 01, 2021, 12:40:02 pm
Wow, that's perfect.

Thanks for doing this.

Title: Re: Feature Suggestion, related to new variable watch list capability
Post by: Richard on August 01, 2021, 06:48:20 pm
@FellippeHeitor

I gather that you cannot use smaller font to squeeze in the extra buttons.     :)




Any chance of a "Help" feature (like the QB64 IDE) - this would in theory allow much more room for things and explanations (sort of like a wiki for $debug)?
Title: Re: Feature Suggestion, related to new variable watch list capability
Post by: FellippeHeitor on August 01, 2021, 07:35:52 pm
@Richard only one font size at a time, don't forget the IDE operates in SCREEN 0 ☺️

@hanness New dev build up, from git e84dffb