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Re: [cdt-dev] Possible to use the qtc-debugging-helper (Either DSF/CDI)

Title: Re: [cdt-dev] Possible to use the qtc-debugging-helper (Either DSF/CDI)
The reason we had to keep the custom variable formatting framework in EDC was because it was dependent on the new symbolic types support which was only added to EDC.


On 4/9/10 9:36 AM, "Paul Warren" <Warren.Paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We've designed a powerful variable formatter in EDC which does the basics like being able to change the display in the details pain, but also optionally allowing the children of the variable to be changed as well.  It also will allow (not fully implemented yet) modifying the value in formatted form.  We will have support for Qt types in this solution (also not yet implemented).

Unfortunately I don't think this does much to help you out since EDC doesn't currently work on Mac, only Windows and Linux.  It would be great to have someone do a TCF debug agent on Mac though.  :)  Maybe you can focus your time on that and we'll provide the Qt formatting aspect?

I should mention that we really wanted to and tried to make this feature non-EDC specific, but there were some technically reasons why it wouldn't work that I can't recall right now. :)  It may be that only some of it is EDC specific, I'm not sure.  David Dubrow might chime in if he's listening.

Thanks,
Warren


>-----Original Message-----
>From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ext Michael Jackson
>Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 9:20 AM
>To: CDT General developers list.
>Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Possible to use the
>qtc-debugging-helper (Either DSF/CDI)
>
>I forgot to mention that I am on "that troublesome platform, OS X"
>where the only GDB that seems to work is the one from Apple
>which is like version 6.3 or something like that so using the
>Python Pretty Printers will not work for this particular platform.
>
>Now obviously since QtCreator does this sort of thing DSF GDB
>should be able to be made to do it also. I just have
>absolutely NO idea where I would start looking. Even a hacked
>together proof of concept would motivate me to spend some late
>nights getting something together.
>
>--
>Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>
>
>On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Elmenthaler, Jens wrote:
>
>> If you use gdb, you might want to check the python pretty printers
>> being supported by gdb 7.0 and later.
>>
>> It effectively means to translate your qtc-debugging-helper
>library to
>> python pretty printers, but this might be valuable anyway.
>>
>> Both gdb integrations (DSF GDB would require the upcoming CDT 7.0)
>> have basic support for the pretty printers. Basic support means the
>> info provided by the pretty printers appears in the details pane of
>> variables and expressions view. But the children and
>variables are not
>> the ones provided by the pretty printers.
>>
>> I'm working on fully enabling them in the variables and expressions
>> view (bug302121). That, however, will only work in DSF GDB.
>>
>> Jens.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-
>>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Jackson
>>> Sent: Freitag, 9. April 2010 16:04
>>> To: CDT General developers list.
>>> Subject: [cdt-dev] Possible to use the qtc-debugging-helper (Either
>>> DSF/CDI)
>>>
>>>
>>>   I do a bunch of Qt programming and I prefer to use Eclipse CDT to
>>> do my programming. The major hurdle that I have currently
>is trying
>>> to
>>> debug Qt based code. Due to the design of the Qt classes when trying
>>> to get the "value" of things like a QString gdb will just
>send back a
>>> pointer address that isn't really helpful. With Qt-Creator the
>>> engineers at Nokia have implemented the qtc-debugging-helper library
>>> which your project can link against.
>>>
>>>   What I was wondering would be what type of code updates to CDT
>>> (Either in CDI or DSF) would have to go into place in oder to
>>> effectively use the code contained in the qtc-debugging-helper
>>> library? Looking through the qtc-debugging-helper library it seems
>>> there are "pretty-printers" for the Qt Classes which can then be
>>> piped
>>> back to the IDE making the request to display more helpful values
>>> of a
>>> class rather then the internal pointer.
>>>
>>>   I am motivated enough to start hacking in CDT to at least figure
>>> out if this type of thing is even possible. Even better
>would be some
>>> help from Nokia to point me in the right direction ;-) ***
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> ___________________________________________________________
>>> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
>>> Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
>>>
>>> *** I know this is basically helping out a rival product
>(QtCreator
>>> vs
>>> Eclipse CDT) but I think would still be seen as a Win-Win for all
>>> parties.
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