Tooltip when debugging

Mario Chacon the.masch at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 13:32:10 UTC 2009


Hello!
I trying to use the debugger in kdevelop4, Do I need to download the
debugger plugin from another location of the official head?

Salu2...
masch...

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs.msu.su> wrote:

> On Saturday 14 February 2009 14:32:35 David nolden wrote:
> > Am Samstag 14 Februar 2009 12:23:30 schrieb Vladimir Prus:
> > > David,
> > >
> > > it appears that when I'm in debug session, hovering over a
> > > variable results in code browsing tooltip. Can you suggest
> > > how debugger can communicate with language support to suppress
> > > it?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Volodya
> >
> > Hi! I'm not sure whether it should be totally suppressed, it might still
> be
> > useful. Does the debugger tooltip have a variable size? Else, it might
> make
> > sense just offsetting the code-browser tooltip down so it's under the
> debugger
> > tooltip.
>
> Oh, that's probably complicated. I'd say that when debugging, variable
> tooltip
> is the element that most surely needs to be shown, so I'd rather suppress
> code nagivation tooltip first, and then see if somebody comes up with a
> clever
> scheme to show both.
>
> > I'm not sure right now how it should be communicated though. Probably the
> best
> > place for it would be some static members within KDevelop::ActiveTooltip.
>
> Well, ActiveTooltip is a fully reusable class, that should not care about
> debuggers
> or language support. I guess I have two more specific questions:
>
>  - It's OK to suppress language support tooltip when debugger is active (no
> matter
>    what perspective is open)? Or it's better to suppress it when we're in
> debug
>    perspective *and* debugger is running?
>  - What is the code in language support that installs the hook that shows
> the
>    tooltop?
>
> If I know this, I'll probably be able to hack something up.
>
> - Volodya
>
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