Add Support for Expression Context Pinning#2203
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This commit add a new option to pin an expression with current active context, making the expression always be evaluating with the pinned context
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I don''t think the workflow demonstrated in the video is satisfying. It has many usability quirks:
- the feedback that the value is pinned to a particular context (only bold) is not explicit; The context on which the evaluation is applied should be made more explicit
- When an expression is pinned to a context, it's easily possible to get the value from another context
- The fact that we can't see the values side-by-side makes it complex to compare different complex values
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But in different launches it will be difficult. |
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This PR introduces a new feature in the Expressions view that allows expressions to be pinned to a specific stack frame, ensuring their values remain visible and consistent even when switching between threads or stack frames or even launches. This enhancement improves the debugging experience by preventing frequent
<error on evaluation>issues (if one wishes to see the variables/expressions again) and enables developers to track and compare expressions or variables (by watch) across different contexts more effectively.Pinned expressions will be highlighted with Bold and italics
This can be removed/unpinned manually or will be removed/unpinned if context not available
My.Movie.mp4
(apologies for the poor video quality - had to compress the size below 10 MB)