Eugene Zhuravlev - 16 Jan 07 19:56 Could you please elaborate? I mean a scenario describing how this would work

Marc Polizzi - 17 Jan 07 08:17 Eugene, during a debugging session, while my application has hit a breakpoint, in the frame panel, I'd like to right-click an object (a collection in my case) and add an option to the contextual menu to export the actual values to Excel; so I need a way to access the actual value being clicked. For the time being I did some sort of hack by having a custom renderer (in the debuggee code) for this object; as you guess this renderer is dumping a dummy value and actually exporting the object to Excel; but this is done each time the object is rendered in the frame - not quite nice - and I'd like to have the exporting code in a plugin. Do you better understand? _marc

Marc Polizzi - 17 Jan 07 08:21 I may add that those objects are financial instruments whose debugging as pure JAVA objects is not always easy; that why sometimes we need a more business oriented view in Excel to better understand what's happening in the code. Hence the IDEA of exporting it on demand into Excel. _marc

Eugene Zhuravlev - 17 Jan 07 17:39 Understand. So the request may be stated like this: "provide a way in debugger's Open API to register a custom action for an object tree and make com.sun.jdi.Value available to this action " Will that be enough?

Marc Polizzi - 18 Jan 07 04:28 Yes Thanks.