165070 - Venkman does not display long string values

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications Graveyard :: Venkman JS Debugger, defect)

Description

[Cyril N. Alberga]

When stepping through a program in Venkman, if a variable has a value which is a
string it is often displayed simply as "string nnn chr.".  This is less than
helpful, particularly when one is constructing HTML content or property lists
(as for window.open).

Some kind of string viewer is needed.

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

< 0001: /eval myStr
> $[0] = [string] 294 characters
<< /evald $[0].stringValue
>> When stepping through a program in Venkman, if a variable has a value which
is a string it is often displayed simply as "string nnn chr.". This is less than
helpful, particularly when one is constructing HTML content or property lists
(as for window.open). Some kind of string viewer is needed.

Comment 2

[Robert Ginda]

cyril, didn't you see my response in the jsdebugger newsgroup?

I addressed this issue, and the one you raise in bug 165068.

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

*** Bug 169840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Rob, how about turning the text "String nnn characters" into a link which runs
the command to display the whole string?  I don't like the pop up idea in bug
169840 at all.  Death to popups!

Comment 5

[Robert Ginda]

I "fixed" this by making the default max string length 4000 characters.