Improving variables view

[Vladimir Prus]

On Monday 06 June 2005 20:04, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> > 4. Making values of variables editable would be nice.
> >
> > The mockup of my suggestions can be found at:
> >
> >     http://zigzag.cs.msu.su/~ghost/variables.png
>
> Currently there is nobody really actively working on the C++ gdb support,
> so I think everybody will be happy if you try to improve it :-)

Ok, I'll take the plunge then.

> Since it doesn't support the machine interface, it isn't of much use for me
> without some hacks. If debugging over the serial line gdb output and
> applicatio output come intermixed and kdevelop considered the application
> output as gdb termination message :-/

Ah.. so that's why you wanted machine interface. I though that for local 
debugging, it's only slightly better than the standard command line 
interface.

> I think the machine interface would help against this.

Dunno, never looked at MI deep enough. FWIW, I'll be using gdb under kdevelop
with remote target, but I think in my case application output won't be a 
problem (because there won't be any ;-) )

- Volodya