Is there an easy way of telling the debugger to display a variable as hex for ease of bit-twiddling? I can see that watchpoints have an associated style but it's greyed out here.

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote

Is there an easy way of telling the debugger to display a variable as hex for ease of bit-twiddling? I can see that watchpoints have an associated style but it's greyed out here.

I asked that same question a few months back. All the greyed out options are not implemented yet. Patches are welcome. ;-)

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote

Is there an easy way of telling the debugger to display a variable as hex for ease of bit-twiddling? I can see that watchpoints have an associated style but it's greyed out here.

There is a way, but more like a workaround. Doesn't work for locals, put works in Watches window:

Pointer(MyVar)

Btw, if you need spaces in an expression
MyVar and 255
you actually need to quote it by hand:
"MyVar and 255"

Include the quotes in the watches win, and it will work.

Thanks both. I ended up hacking it with a temporary conversion in the code which allowed me to see what I'd done wrong :-)

Getting the missing watchpoint style coded sounds like a tricky job since it would presumably need additions to whatever makes the internal structure persistent, as well as the UI for setting it up and handling the display.