[Soot-list] Eclipse ColorTags Disappearing

[Jack Griffith]

Hi Eric,

I am working on my final year project for my masters degree, and being able
to visualise the results of my analysis through colours would be extremely
valuable for me. I appreciate that you may have more urgent matters, but I
would really value any time spent towards fixing this in the near future!

I find it odd that this would work a week or two ago, and on the (presumably
same as I am using the same versions) software there is now an issue?

Thanks once again,
Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: eric.bodden at googlemail.com [mailto:eric.bodden at googlemail.com] On
Behalf Of Eric Bodden
Sent: 14 December 2008 22:50
To: Jack Griffith
Cc: soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca
Subject: Re: [Soot-list] Eclipse ColorTags Disappearing

Hi Jack.

So far all I can tell you is that I can reproduce the problem. When
you (de)select a tag kind on the Analysis tab then the color tags are
quickly shown again, but not for long. The weirdest thing is that the
color tag for "World" is shown in green for me all the time. But all
the other tags seem to disappear again instantaneously.

The Soot plugin is unfortunately of very bad code quality and it would
take me some time to debug this. Does this bug hold you back from
anything important? If not I would like to ask you to open a bug
report in our bugzilla so that we can look into it at some later
point.

Eric

2008/12/14 Jack Griffith <jg205 at doc.ic.ac.uk>:
> Hi,
>
> I am experimenting with ColorTags in Eclipse, and I seem to have
> encountered a problem. The tags appear correctly for a brief second,
> then almost all of them disappear!
>
> I thought this was a problem with my implementation of tagging, but I
> now seem to have the same problem with the built-in NullPointerColourer
> as well, whereas I did not last week! I have made a fresh installation
> of eclipse and soot since my last test, perhaps this has had some
> influence on the outcome?
>
> For instance, the only ColorTags that persist in the test program below
> (when running the built-in NullPointerColorer) are:
>        1. BLUE tag on String[] args (indicating nullness unknown)
>        2. GREEN tag on "World" (indicating not null)
>
> public class Test
> {
>    public static void main(String[] args)
>    {
>        String str1 = null;
>        String str2 = "Hello";
>
>        String str3 = null;
>        String str4 = "World";
>    }
> }
>
> The Soot analysis I run is:
>
> soot.Main --f J --p jap.npcolorer enabled:true --polyglot
> --d .../Project/workspace/SimpleBodyTransformer/sootOutput --cp ...
> --keep-line-number --xml-attributes --src-prec java Test
>
> I think the crucial point is that all ColorTag's appear correctly very
> briefly, then disappear!
>
> I would really appreciate any insights on this problem.
>
> Thanks
> Jack
>
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Eric Bodden
Sable Research Group, McGill University
Montréal, Québec, Canada