Re: [platform-debug-dev] Variables and Registers views

[Darin Wright <Darin_Wright@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI to those interested in this view. Further developments are being 
tracked by:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=53640

Darin




"Mikhail Khodjaiants" <mikhailk@xxxxxxx> 
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Darin,

This is the patch for the Registers view and the corresponding changes. It
is created against the HEAD branch, though I tested it for v20040223.

Thank you,
Mikhail

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darin Wright" <Darin_Wright@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sure.
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> Darin
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> Unfortunately, the "nice" extension of the "VariablesView" class is not
> possible. The "ViewerState" class assumes that all viewer's elements are
> instances of  "IVaraible" which is not true for the registers view.
> However, replacing "ViewerState" by some abstract class with the 
abstract
> "encode" and "decode" methods and providing a protected factory method 
for
> this class will solve the problem.
> Are you interested in these changes?
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> Thanks,
> Mikhail
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> > Ideally, you could contribute your registers view to the debug 
platform.
> > Then it could live in an internal package, taking advantage of the 
debug
> > view framework. Currently, we do not have cycles to make the views 
API.
> > Alternatively, you could just subclass our views, knowning that you 
are
> > vulnerable to breakage.
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> > Hi,
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> > I am currently working on the new version of the Registers view for 
CDT.
> > Functionally the Registers view is identical to the Variables view. 
The
> > implementation needs some minor changes in the content provider and 
the
> > event handler. The best way to implement this is to do exactly what 
has
> > been done for the Expression view - extend the corresponding classes.
> > Unfortunately, this is not an option, the VariablesView class and all
> > related classes are internal. All I can do now is create copies of the
> > internal classes and follow the changes.
> > Are there any suggestions on how to handle the situations like this
> > differently?
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> > Thanks,
> > Mikhail Khodjaiants
> > QNX Software Systems
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