Gathering System Diagnostics from a sketch over the debug connection #1294

Most relevant area for this enhancement?

PDE

Feature to enhance

Diagnostics

Enhancement details

Enhancement description

Previously I added the ability to copy system information to the clipboard by clicking on the version number.
Inspired by Glv’s post https://discourse.processing.org/t/report-system-and-environment-diagnostics-at-runtime/47384
I realised that we could use the debug connection to a sketch to gather even more data about the system.

Benefits

Increasing the information gathered will make it easier to find and fix bugs in the future. Especially if we start asking users to submit these information dumps.

Challenges

Privacy

Additional context

The way this would need to be done is by creating a data structure and function within ‘core’ that will gather the data that is not available in de PDE. Then the PDE needs to check if a debug connection is active in the ‘JavaEditor’ and call the function present in ‘core’.

Would you like to help implement this enhancement?

No, I’m just suggesting the enhancement