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RedDeer Spy view

Marián Labuda edited this page Jul 16, 2015 · 3 revisions

About Spy view

RedDeer Spy view provides tracking of widgets inside an Eclipse application. RedDeer spy view provides meaningful and clean way to track widgets and their information.

How to use

Widget tracking is turned on by pressing CTRL + ALT key combination. To let information about a widget be shown regardless cursor location, press CTRL + ALT key combination again while cursor is over the widget. This stops widget tracking and in RedDeer Spy view is shown information about last inspected widget.

Widget information

RedDeer Spy view provides basic information about widgets such as their classes. In case of existence of RedDeer widget implementation for a Eclipse widget there is shown possible RedDeer widget implementation class. Eclipse widgets having some text provide also information about such text. Further information about widget contains its siblings and children. Finally, there is a widget tree containing all parents of a widget to the root (Workbench Shell), as well as children and siblings of this widget.

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