[Cuis-dev] System Browser "show..." button

[Juan Vuletich]

On 3/19/2025 4:00 PM, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev wrote:
> If I remember correctly, the row of buttons in System Browsers that 
> begins with "browse" and "senders" used to end with a "show..." 
> button. Was that functionality removed or moved to somewhere else? I 
> had written the following notes about it:
>
> The "show..." button displays a popup list of ways the selected item 
> can be displayed in the bottom pane. Each option is represented by a 
> checkbox, but only one can be selected.
>
> The default option is "source" which merely displays the source code 
> of the selected method. This is typically the desired choice.
>
> Selecting "documentation" only displays the signature and comment for 
> the selected item. When there is no comment, it displays "Has no comment".
>
> Selecting "prettyPrint" displays the code for a method in a nicely 
> formatted way, but doesn't actually modify the code.
>
> Selecting "lineDiffs", "wordDiffs", "linePrettyDiffs", or 
> "wordPrettyDiffs" has the same functionality as described earlier for 
> "Recent versions" windows.
>
> Selecting "decompile" displays code that is similar to the source 
> code, but variable names are changed. Parameter variable names are 
> replaced by `arg1`, `arg2`, and so on. Local variable names are 
> replaced by `temp1`, `temp2`, and so on. It's not clear when this 
> would be useful.
>
> Selecting "byteCodes" displays the byte codes generated by the method 
> source code. This could be useful for evaluating the efficiency of the 
> code.
>
> -- 
> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.

Hi Mark,

It was moved to the right-click menu on the code pane. I think it makes 
more sense there.

HTH,

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