How to set the hoover over variable display format to something other than natural?

Hi Stephen,

can you expand a bit more ?

I see the below when I am debugging and hover on a variable.  are you in debug?

Best Regards,

Lisa

Hello Lisa,

I am in Debug - I can see the Debug tab and the resume, terminate and other debug icons.  The project explorer and expressions window is also displaying.

Even if I expand the dialog box to the entire screen, I still have to use the scroll bar to see all the different variable formats.

That's not really an issue if I can get the value to alway display in either hex or decimal.

Stephen

Hi Stephen,

are you actively debugging?  Although I still see the number in decimal when not, the view has less information when not.  When I try an unsigned char in v5.4 I get "integer conversion resulted in truncation".

Have you tried other variable types?

I have used the defaults.  What exact variable type and how have you defined it ?  I am hoping to try to reproduce this so we can see if we can correct/explain what you see.

Best Regards,
Lisa

You should be able to resize the bottom half of the pop up dialog to show more info. Click on the horizontal splitter and drag to resize.

Patrick

stevenh said:

That's not really an issue if I can get the value to alway display in either hex or decimal.

Goto Expression view and select the "Number format" from the little triangle in the view, pick the format that you want. Perform a single step to update the pop window if you switch to a new display format. 

Hello Patrick,

I have already done that before. I would rather have the hoover over dialog box display the value in the correct format.  Sometimes, I just need a quick way to find out the variables value and hoovering over the variable is the qickest way.

Stephen

Below is a piece of code (junk code) that's giving me the same problem (shows "." for all variables values).

Stephen

char a=1,b=1,c=1,d=1;

int main(void) {    

    char e,g;    

    unsigned char xx;

    e = a&b|c&d;

    g = a&&b||c&&d;

    xx =3;

 return 0; }

Is there any way to set its default size, so I don't have to resize all of the time.

I don't remember having this problem before, although I am now using Windows 7and I was using Windows XP.

Stephen

Patrick Chuong said:

Sorry, there is no option to control the popup dialog with the current Eclipse version.

Patrick

Ok. 

That isn't what I was wanting to hear. 

If it weren't for the values shown at the bottom of the dialog box, it would be completely unusable.

Is there anyway to set the default size of the top or bottom half of the pop-up dialog box?

Stephen