[dsdp-tm-dev] RE: [dsdp-dd-dev] Console requirements?

["Stieber, Uwe" <Uwe.Stieber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aaron,
you may want to refer to the bugzilla entries
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36669 and
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=111186. They both deal
with Consoles and need to take into account if modifying the platform
console service.

Basically an improved console should allow easy "connectivity" to
whatever. First hand, we look mainly for getting the currently existing
implementation of the ProcessConsole splitted into an public
ProcessConsole (not tight together with launch configurations) and
possible still internal DebugProcessConsole (tight together with launch
configurations as the current implementation is, no change to current
users/clients). This is basically similar to what you pointed out in
your second point besides the console infrastructure should not be
limited to debuggee processes only. 

Additional, the consoles should have an contributable font and colour
provider which allows to change fonts/colours for matching parts of the
document. The current implementation of the platform console
infrastructure requires to replace the whole
IDocument/IDocumentPartitioner implementation of the console which is an
overkill for the basic requirement to get all three streams of a process
very easely connected to an console and to have influence on the
presentation by in example simple regex matcher.

Best regards,

--
Uwe Stieber
Senior Software Engineer
Engineering - Wind River Gmbh - Austria
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dsdp-dd-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:dsdp-dd-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Spear, Aaron
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 5:54 PM
> To: Device Debugging developer discussions; Target Management 
> developer discussions
> Subject: [dsdp-dd-dev] Console requirements?
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I wanted to kick off a thread to solicit some 
> requirements/thoughts for consoles in the brave new DSDP 
> world.  I will throw a few out that I can
> see:
> 
> -Pluggable/Selectable terminal emulations (plain text, 
> vt-100, vt-220,...).  We ought to have stock ones like those 
> mentioned, but there should be an extension point so others 
> can contribute something completely specific if they want.
> 
> -Pluggable connectivity to the other side.  The simple use 
> case is a replacement/augmentation of the existing Eclipse 
> console, one that does stdio with the debugged process.  I 
> think that we will want to reuse the same component elsewhere 
> though, e.g. a terminal opened on a socket from the RSE or something. 
> 
> I don't know what exactly we will do with this little 
> sub-project.  It seems to me that it should probably be 
> pushed into the platform (at least the framework changes for 
> consoles) and then perhaps we have specific terminal 
> emulations that exist in DSDP?
> 
> cheers,
> Aaron
> 
> --
> Aaron Spear
> Debug Tools Architect/Staff Engineer
> Mentor Graphics
> 
> 
> 
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