Agreed.
We’d certainly be interested in helping out with this as well.
From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Cortell
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:39 PM
To: CDT General developers list.; CDT General developers list.
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Grid layout in Registers view: making better use
of empty space
I think our customers would like to
see the registers in this layout. Other debuggers I've worked with typically
display registers in that more condensed fashion.
John
At 03:33 PM 10/1/2009, Mehregani, Navid wrote:
One
of the features requested from our users is to display registers in a grid
layout. This would allow users to look at more registers as they’re
debugging their code. This feature makes a much better use of the empty
space typically displayed in Registers view. As indicated in the attached
snapshot, the captured registers view displays about 13 registers when
it’s in “tree layout”. However, switching to
“grid layout” allows the user to view more than 30 registers at the
same time.
I’ve already implemented this feature without modifying Platform/CDT
code. When grid layout is selected, I replace the content/label providers
used by the tree viewer in Registers view. The current TreeModelViewer
and label provider used by Registers view automatically assume that each
register will be displayed on a new row. By replacing the providers, I
“trick” the viewer into displaying multiple registers on the same
row. My solution is not very clean or efficient. To come up with a
better solution, I’d have to implement it at a lower level (i.e. either
at platform or CDT/DSF layer).
The purpose of this e-mail is to see who else in the community would be
interested in such a feature. If there is enough interest, I can submit
an enhancement (along with my code) and with the help of the community we can
come up with the ideal solution.
