Re: [cdt-dev] Detailed formatter feature for CDT, feedback welcome!

[Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your support guys.

I've created enhancement request 237960 [1], and added my patch there. 
I'll add more details as soon as I get the chance, got to run! :)

Tor Arne

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=237960

Schaefer, Doug wrote:
> Yes, this is very cool. And for feature rich APIs like Qt and STL, I can see this being very useful.
>
> It would be good to not be gdb specific. We have a lot of debuggers that we integrate with that are not gdb. (BTW, I've restarted the Windows debugger integration as an exemplary integration that's not gdb). This is where need something like Eclipse Monkey, or whatever the latest Monkey du jour is, to let us attach scripts this way. (Also, I'm not sure how the JDT does it, do they use scripting?)
>
> More details in a bug/enhancement request would be great.
>
> Cheers,
> Doug.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pawel Piech
> > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:09 PM
> > To: CDT General developers list.
> > Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Detailed formatter feature for CDT, 
> > feedback welcome!
> >
> > I really like the idea too, though it's obviously 
> > GDB-specific.  Would it be possible to make this available as 
> > a patch to a bug?
> > Thanks
> > Pawel
> >
> > Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've spent a few of my creative Fridays implementing the 
> > JDT Details 
> > > Formatter feature for CDT, and would like some feedback on 
> > my approach.
> > > You can find the branch here:
> > >
> > > http://github.com/torarnv/cdt/commits/torarne/detailformatter
> > >
> > > Right now it's just a big commit, but I could try to divide it into 
> > > smaller pieces if possible.
> > >
> > > My approach was to copy as much of the GUI stuff from JDT, and then 
> > > re-implement the back-end using GDB macros, which are 
> > loaded into the 
> > > debug target. That way we could perhaps move the common parts to 
> > > platform later on.
> > >
> > > There' still a lot of stuff missing, like showing the 
> > result for mouse 
> > > hover, or having formatters for base classes apply to 
> > subclasses too, 
> > > but the general framework is there.
> > >
> > > Here's a few screenshots:
> > >
> > > http://chaos.troll.no/~tavestbo/cdt/cdt-detail-formatter1.png
> > > http://chaos.troll.no/~tavestbo/cdt/cdt-detail-formatter2.png
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > Tor Arne
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Tor Arne Vestbø, Software Engineer
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