Several issues making Recaf more difficult to use than it should be

[zDEFz]

Here are the issues I faced that keep me from working efficiently:

• Lack of switching from decompilation to table view via shortcut
• Lack of ability to create a new field
• Lack of ability to duplicate a method
• Lack of ability to work in obfuscated / illegal code when using the decompilation view
• Lack of ability to bookmark classes / making comments
• Lack of ability to change all classes file version at once (this is particularly interesting if you have newer code in older compilations). In the past I had to automate this via Autohotkey
• Lack of open the assembly where the search result is at, while marking the result in the list.
• Saving and then exporting a newly inserted bytecode often results in a partially NOP'ed bytecode. Reason unknown
• Hangs, crashes after hours of working in the program, losing progress as a result

When I need to duplicate a method, I would require to open JByteMod, duplicate it, and then go to recaf.
When I want to create a new Field, I have to download DirtyJoe and run it through wine (yikes) and then create the UTF8 string, field and fieldreference or so.

[Amejonah1200]

Have you tried 3x?

[zDEFz]

Have you tried 3x?

I will update this post everytime I find more.

Findings

• Lack of ability to add a Field in a Method (copy and pasting a existing one works)
• Lack of ability to create a folder within the jar (for refactoring)
• Lack of running a deobfuscator through a jar. e.g like https://github.com/java-deobfuscator/deobfuscator . Note that it requires a jdk+jfx set with jce, jsse, ace, rt jarfiles. This is especially helpful for obfuscated strings and works reliably
• Lack of bookmarking system. Especially in convoluted setups kinda a must.
• Lack of saving bytecode-snippets / java snippets for doing simple things
• Lack of commenting bytecode (might be serving as a file outside the actual jar?)
• Lack of class-specific logging
• Lack of extraction of a class file
• Lack of taking parts of the UI into fullscreen rather than dragging it. e.g logs

Controversial?

• Lack of ability to work in obfuscated / illegal code when using the decompilation view

[zDEFz]

• Add ability to immediately save to the jarfile we are editing.
  I don't know how many time it cost me, to save the bytecode, and the use the save as ... dialog.

My request has two parts in it:

• Via shortcut, e.g CTRL+Shift+S for saving the current progress immediately to the currently opened file
• To change the behavior to also immediately change the altered bytecode, without prior having to CTRL+S