How To Update this.currentAddress During Script Execution

I have an instruction address trace and I’d like to visualize it with Ghidra. I’m able to update the address via this.currentAddress = this.currentAddress.getAddress(address); (which feels like the improper way to update the cursor location), but when I update the address multiple times within a script the cursor is only ever updated to the final address at the end of the script execution. This makes it where I’m unable to watch the instruction trace at all.

Here is my script.

public class TraceGoTo extends GhidraScript {

	@Override
	public void run() throws Exception {
		String addresses[] = new String[] {"0x10a094", "0x10a098", "0x10a09c"};
		
		System.out.println("TraceGoTo!");
		for (String address : addresses) {
			setAddress(address);
			TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(1);
		}
		
	}
	
	public void setAddress(String address) throws AddressFormatException
	{
		System.out.println("Setting address to " + address);
		this.currentAddress = this.currentAddress.getAddress(address);	
	}
}

1. What is the proper way to set this.currentAddress?
2. How can I get ghidra to render the updated address during the script execution (change the current cursor location)
3. Better yet, how could I make a dialogue of sorts, where I could just click a button for “Next Address” and then update this.currentAddress? This would actually suit my needs and seems like the ideal approach anyways.

[dev747368]

re: addresses, use toAddr(String) or toAddr(long)

re: dialog. I haven’t played with the table convenience methods much, but using a dialog with a table does sound like a more user-friendly way to go.

[dev747368]

Creating TableModels for tables is just one of the those things you have to get comfortable with when you venture outside the easy, predefined helper methods published in GhidraScript / FlatProgramAPI.

You have the full might and power of java and the internal classes defined in Ghidra to create anything you want. It just takes a bit of work.