[Daniel3000i]

JCreator seriously needs a debugger front end.

[chapmx]

First off, JCreator is and will continue to be my primary Java IDE. That said, a more full featured debugger would make it not only my "primary" IDE but the ONLY IDE that I would use/need!

[Patn]

JCreator is a great IDE...I love it...unfortunately I do not use Java that much anymore, just a little on my own time to keep in practice. I inquired about a better debugger some time ago, just after the last major rev (3.0) I believe. I was told that they were working on having a third party write one for them and that it would be available sometime mid year, well that mid year would have been last summer. But I truly believe that they are working on this. They also told me that they didn't want to just throw a debugger together, they wanted to make a full featured debugger. Things like this take a lot of time be patient I think a debugger is in the not to distant future.

[MajinZ]

I think a debugger is in the not to distant future.

I have never used the debugger, and I don't really think I ever will use it... But I do hope you are right about what you said :-)

For what reason do you guys use it? And what other methods of debugging your programs do you use?

[E-E-R]

I have never used the debugger, and I don't really think I ever will use it... But I do hope you are right about what you said :-)

For what reason do you guys use it? And what other methods of debugging your programs do you use?

I usually use the debugger to know why some part of my code breaks, mostly a loop to many or a loop that is not at all performed..

Other ways to find this out is to use excessively much System.out.println(var) statements, but I am not really fan of that practise.

I am really glad there will be a good debugger soon :)

[Patn]

I don't want to give anyone the wrong impression that there is a debugger in the works and it will be out soon. This is just how I feel from information I was given some time ago. I think JCreator is a great IDE and Xinox does a good job putting in the features that are needed by it's users most so they will get it done when the time is right.

As far as the person who doesn't need a debugger...you must an efficient coder. As posted earlier the only other way I would debug would be to print to the console I would usually do this by making a class to handle this and put in a mechanism to be able to turn it on and off.

Happy Coding!

[Phil^]

i agree, a graphical debugger which allows for objects to be inspected at run-time, individual functions called at will, fields to be edited, functions to be stepped through, etc would be very nice.

[Larrym_5353]

I agree that something beyond the dump feature...way beyond needs to be added. I like JCreator because it is so much like the VS.NET but have come close to going back to one of the other IDE's because of how much work it is to do almost any debugging.