I’m proud to announce that after a long time, we finally managed to throw out a new release. I’ve managed to improve the core functionality therefore this release contains a significant advance in overall performance.
Also, Stampie managed to fix a long-awaited feature, the two-way synchronization with the variables view.
In the future, we plan to redesign the use-cases of the tool. Currently, we’re in an experimental phase, which means we do not know how we want it to work.
I created a quick service release to incorporate the changes since the last release.
This includes some minor adjustments in order to provide a more seamless user experience (sorry for the bullshit, but I just couldn’t withstand it 🙂 ).
Well, the new release fixes a nullpointer exception, and adds an option to save the current graph.
There are further tweaking regarding usability: the default layout is changed to Tree Layout in order to allow faster responses, and it is possible to hide the Local context node. These changes are the beginning of some serious overhaul, our goal is to increase the usability of the plugin.
Today I created a new release from Debug Visualisation.
The new release is called 0.7.0, as it introduces major new features:
There are also some minor updates, such as the reintroduction of the Simulated cooling layout algorithm.
On the other hand most changes are not visible in the user interface, but the revamped code should allow us to create some new features in the next service releases.
We recommend the update for everybody. Some technical information:
I’ve commited the Debug Visualization project a long ago, but the previous few days I’ve had some spare time to kill on the project. The work mostly focused on the input package, which I didn’t liked at all when I wrote it in the first time. I just didn’t have better idea. But i have now and rewrote the whole part.
I’m satisfied with the currently used approach (for now), as I’ve managed to separate different functionalities, and connect them in a simple way. Also, it is reasonably faster than before, but it still makes the eclipse lagging when the user steps the debug context, which I don’t know why (yet). Anyway, navigating in the graph, hiding/showing nodes and other display-related functions are now fast enough.
For a more detailed explanation of the new operation, see the wiki page InputPackage.
ps.: for a change as big as this, I’m thinking of a maintenance step in the version numbering (0.7.0 instead of 0.6.2), what do you think? I’m hesitating because of the lack of new features.
Version 0.6.0 introduced some serious regressions from the previous versions, so we decided to create a quick service release.
This release contains fixes for Stack Overflow and Hidden nodes issues, and added some minor new features as the ability to zoom the graph.
You can use P2 to automatically update your installation, or install the new version from the http://eclipse.cubussapiens.hu update site.
We are hoping, this release will be usable than the previous one.