[DrJava] [ drjava-Feature Requests-878970 ] more subtle breakpoint indication

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Feature Requests item #878970, was opened at 2004-01-17 11:19
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Category: Debugger
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Hal Perkins (hperkins)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: more subtle breakpoint indication

Initial Comment:
The current development verison of DrJava shows debugger 
breakpoints by overlaying a bright red band on top of the 
source code line.  This is visually distracting when one is 
looking at the code.

Instead of the bright highlight band, it'd be nice to put a 
small stop-sign icon in the left margin next to the line 
where the breakpoint has been set.  This has been used in 
many IDEs over the years and works well.  In IDEs that do 
this, a narrow, empty scroll bar usually appears at the left 
edge of the source editing window when debugging is 
available, and breakpoints are toggled on and off by clicking 
in that bar next to the line of source code.  Not only does 
this provide a place to put the stop sign icons, but it also 
provides a nice visual clue about whether debugging is 
enabled or not.

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