few days ago, when I was debugging an Android project under eclipse I’ve found some great functionality: “All instances…” and “Instance count”. I wanted to share my findings with rest of my colleagues, but none of them had this functionality in their eclipse install (we all use eclipse 3.7).
What’s even more weird now I’m also missing this functionality.
As far as I can tell this functionality is build within eclipse from version 3.3 and available to projects using Java 1.6 and above as mentioned here and here (we’re using 1.6).
See bottom of this link to see what functionality I’m talking about. It even has it’s own shortcut in options (ctrl+shift+n) so I think there must be a way to use it again.
I was looking for it while debugging and while the debugger was in “stopped” state.
Anyone can help me put eclipse in right view/perspective/state to see this functionality again?
EDIT
Here is the documentation entry from eclipse help page: link
Thanks for any suggestions,
kajman
After some more digging I came to following conclusion:
DalvikVM does not support “instance retrieval”.
On eclipse help page mentioned in EDIT section it written:
Maybe there is an option to enable this option in DalvikVM, but I doubt it unfortunately.
Also when debugging on phone “Drop to frame” functionality is missing.