Re: [platform-debug-dev] extending VariablesView?

[Darin Wright <Darin_Wright@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Darin,
> 
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> 
> Am am writing the plugin for an embedded system. This system has some
> hardware registers (for peripherals) in the processors memory map.
These 
> can be viewed using a Memory view, but this is very clunky.
> 
> Typically, each peripheral will have a small number of memory-mapped
> registers (<16), they may not be contiguous in the memory map,
they may 
> be 8-, 16- or 32-bits wide and very often they consist of separate
> bit-fields. Therefore, each peripheral, in effect, needs it own custom
view.
> 
> None of the current views even comes close...

In 3.2, we added experimental support for 'flexible
content'. Basically, a model can present and drive the update of any hierarchy
of elements in a debug view. However, the presentation (controls - tree/table)
remains as is. We hope to make the 3.2 support public API in 3.3. There
was a tutorial covering this material at EclipseCon 2006 - you can review
the presentation here: http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/php/attachment.php?bugid=58.

Hopefully you are familiar with the DSDP project which
is aimed at embedded developers - http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/

Darin