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Feature request: Support Show as Binary #1078
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Suggestions
- Workaround: in the Debug Watch panel or Evaluate box, wrap your variable with
Integer.toBinaryString(yourVar)to view its binary representation. - To help prioritize binary formatting in the Java Debug extension, upvote/add a comment in this feature request.
References
- Support “Logical Structure” for debug variables: can be extended to custom views but doesn’t yet cover binary formatting.
• Support "Logical Structure" for debug variables #227
Other references with low confidence
- [Feature request] set feature flag to control this feature (Java Pack) – about toggling a flag, not directly binary display. [Feature request] set feature flag to control this feature vscode-java-pack#1481
- Unreferenced/Unused Method, Field highlight – unrelated to numeric display. Unreferenced/Unused Method, Field highlight redhat-developer/vscode-java#3532
- Always use test configuration or make it configurable – unrelated to debug formatting. Always use test configuration or make it configurable vscode-java-test#264 (comment)
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- Workaround: in the Debug Watch panel or Evaluate box, wrap your variable with
Currently, "Show as Hex" and " Show as Dec" is supported, but when I debug a program that used bit operations or bitmap structrue, I prefer to show an integer variable as binary, can you add this useful feature?
thanks!
