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This enhancement enables the display of values for custom data types in the variables and expressions view. The basic idea is to define an interface (named ICDIValueType in the provided patches) which can be implemented by types that produce value objects whose string value can be formatted and associated with a label.
Created attachment 33967 [details] Changes to ...cdt.debug.core Introduces ICDIValueType.
Created attachment 33968 [details] Changes to ...cdt.debug.ui Uses ICType.isValueType() to display values of custom data types in CDebugModelPresentation.
excerpt from Mikhail emails: There are two reasons why I didn't apply (a): - the main reason: it's two big to apply it without going through the legal procedure, i.e. fill the questionnaire, submit it to the Eclipse legal department and wait for permission. - I was thinking to add an extension point to allow clients to contribute custom types instead of extending the CDI. It would be great if we implement all C/C++ specific types as contributions and make the base of CDI language independent. I think it's doable
Mikhail email: > From: cdt-debug-dev-bounces@eclipse.org [mailto:cdt-debug-dev- > bounces@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Mikhail Khodjaiants > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:49 AM > To: CDT Debug developers list > Subject: RE: [cdt-debug-dev] CDI proposals (on the wiki) > > > According to an email from Matthias, there was no legal barrier to > this patch, see: > > As far as I know, even if there are no legal barriers from his company, > the Eclipse Foundation still have to check the code. The committer who > appllies the patch should fill a special form and send the patch to the > Eclipse Foundation. The patch can only be applied after it's been > approved by them. That's my understanding, by I am not an expert. Ask > Dave I. or Doug. > > > There is an item to use the logical structure and the detail pane to > deal with this. Are we overlapping? > > As far as I remember, the patch extends the existing CDI types by adding > a new generic type. My suggestion is to add a mechanism (extension > point) to do it instead of extending the CDI. > Logical structures and detail panels are used to provide special > presentations of the existing types. >
Hey guys, after reviewing the patch, I do not see enough content there to warrant a legal review. The actual lines of new code seems to be well less than 100 and I do not see any algorithms there that are not CDT specific. A contribution questionaire is not required.
(In reply to comment #3) > - I was thinking to add an extension point to allow clients to > contribute custom types instead of extending the CDI. It would be great > if we implement all C/C++ specific types as contributions and make the > base of CDI language independent. I think it's doable I don't think the proposed solution is general enough. I'd rather prefer to see the feature described in bug 155331 implemented.
