From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Shebs To: insight-announce@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Insight Source Now Available Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:14:00 -0000 Message-id: <199907272209.PAA22119@andros.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00000.html Cygnus Solutions is pleased to announce the availability of the sources to the GDB GUI Insight(tm). Insight is a second-generation implementation that builds on experience with our first GUI, GDBtk. Insight makes more extensive use of graphics and color, and offers a wider variety of windows and display options. It is possible to use Insight without knowing any GDB commands at all, even for embedded cross debugging; but as always, there is a fully functional GDB command window as well, for when commands are still preferable. Insight is built using tcl/tk, which means that the same interface is available on both Unix and Windows hosts, and uses [incr tcl], an object-oriented extension of tcl, to organize its many windows and widgets. The tcl interpreter links directly into GDB, and thus has fast and efficient access to GDB's internal data, unlike DDD and other frontends that must go through the command-line interface. Cygnus is making Insight available under the GNU Public License. You can find out more about Insight at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/insight/ We have screenshots, download information, and other useful bits. If you'd like to discuss Insight, feel free to drop an e-mail note to the Insight discussion mailing list, insight@sourceware.cygnus.com. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the main contributors to GDBtk and Insight. Stu Grossman started it all as a personal project in 1994. The current version was started by Martin Hunt, and since then Keith Seitz and Jim Ingham have made scads of improvements and enhancements. Tom Tromey, Elena Zannoni, and many other Cygnites have made significant contributions as well. It is my hope that the members of the net community will find Insight useful, seek to improve it further, and thus add their names to this illustrious roll. Stan Shebs Cygnus Solutions shebs@cygnus.com