Feature request: Support Show as Binary

[inuter]

Currently, "Show as Hex" and " Show as Dec" is supported, but when I debug a program that used bit operations or bitmap structrue, I prefer to show an integer variable as binary, can you add this useful feature?

thanks!

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Suggestions

• Workaround: in the Debug Watch panel or Evaluate box, wrap your variable with Integer.toBinaryString(yourVar) to view its binary representation.
• To help prioritize binary formatting in the Java Debug extension, upvote/add a comment in this feature request.

References

• Support “Logical Structure” for debug variables: can be extended to custom views but doesn’t yet cover binary formatting. • https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-java-debug/issues/227

Other references with low confidence

• [Feature request] set feature flag to control this feature (Java Pack) – about toggling a flag, not directly binary display. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-java-pack/issues/1481
• Unreferenced/Unused Method, Field highlight – unrelated to numeric display. https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-java/issues/3532
• Always use test configuration or make it configurable – unrelated to debug formatting. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-java-test/issues/264#issuecomment-410690528

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