KDev4 Debugger Status

[Hamish Rodda]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:07:15 am Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 26.11.07 20:40:13, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 26.11.07 22:55:40, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The initial port of the debugger is done, at least it compiles and
> > > loads ok. There's much breakage, and people are encouraged to dive in
> > > and help - i've even turned on the qt3 support warnings, so those are
> > > good places to start.
> > >
> > > (it can't be used at the moment, btw, before you try to use it)
> > >
> > > Also, I'm currently stuck on why the gui won't merge... any ideas?
> >
> > Currently I know this much: The gdb plugin isn't known to be an xml gui
> > client of kdevelop. I'm not sure why it is that way though, especially
> > as its not clear yet how the clients get hooked into the parent :(
>
> ROFLMAO. Guess what, you created that problem in the first place :)

Oops, just goes to show how hard creating the proper init sequence can be I 
guess.

> The problem is that the order of events in Mainwindow::initialize is
> wrong. It first creates the status bar, which results in asking the
> plugin controller for a plugin for IStatus, this in turn loads the
> debugger plugin. And after that the mainwindow hooks itself up to the
> plugincontroller signals, like pluginLoaded to call xmlgui->addClient()
> when a plugin is loaded to merge its gui.
>
> God, I can't believe it took me 2 hours to find this out. Though it
> actually took me 1,8 hours to find out where XmlGuiFactory::addClient is
> called in the first place :(
>
> Solution was easy: Move the statusbar creation to the end of
> MainWindow::initialize(). I also added a couple of kdebug calls, which
> should help to spot such problems sooner in the future (i.e. problems in
> the order of initialization of things)

Thanks for the fix :)

Cheers,
Hamish.
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