[news.eclipse.tools] Re: [jdt debug] This must be a joke

["Randy Hudson" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Bob Foster" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Randy Hudson" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > I would like to be able to see static fields that aren't final, and
final
> > fields that aren't static, but there is no way to set that up with this
> > dialog.  This is why users usually leave both final and static fields
> > hidden, and then turn on *ONLY* one or the other, but not both.  No one
> > wants to look at constants (static finals)
>
> Agree. If the justification for this dialog is more control, then please
> give us the control we need. I wanted to make static variables visible but
> including static finals adds so much clutter I had to turn them off.

To clarify, you *can* make only statics visible, and not static finals. (I'm
sure you're probably on M5 already and know this).  And, you can make finals
visible, without statics.  But you cannot make both visible simultaneously,
because doing so shows you static finals too.