You guys rock!

You guys rock!

[Michael Abd-El-Malek]

I tried Insight for the first time now... I've been looking at it for a
while, and finally I got the time to install it!
It's great! All the windows are really useful... The only drawback is
the use of Tcl/Tk, which makes the windows load slowers... But this is a
minor irritance...
One question though: in the register window, how do I make the fields
narrower? They're really wide right now and they take up plenty of
screen real-estate... Is it possible to resize them?
All in all, this frontend is really nice and good job!
Keep up the good work,
Michael Abd-El-Malek
2nd year computer engineering student, University of Waterloo

Re: You guys rock!

[Michael Abd-El-Malek]

Ok I found the "answer" to that question!
I had another annoying thing to report: the output of the program doesn't
go to the Console window, but rather to the terminal that started gdb.
 What do you guys think about that?  To me, it seems to be more convenient
for the output to go to the Console window, like DDD does...
Thanks!
Michael

Michael Abd-El-Malek wrote:

> I tried Insight for the first time now... I've been looking at it for a
> while, and finally I got the time to install it!
> It's great! All the windows are really useful... The only drawback is
> the use of Tcl/Tk, which makes the windows load slowers... But this is a
> minor irritance...
> One question though: in the register window, how do I make the fields
> narrower? They're really wide right now and they take up plenty of
> screen real-estate... Is it possible to resize them?
> All in all, this frontend is really nice and good job!
> Keep up the good work,
> Michael Abd-El-Malek
> 2nd year computer engineering student, University of Waterloo

Re: You guys rock!

[James Ingham]

Michael,

This is not quite the solution I want to implement.  Turns out the
console window is not an XTerm, but a Tk Text window.  This has some
nice features, and I want to keep it around so I can do things like
switch it from a gdb command-line window to a direct conduit to the
Tcl interpreter living in Insight.  

However, this means that it would be hard to use this console for
terminal I/O, since I don't really want to write a real terminal I/O
package for Tk text widgets (including raw mode...)

The real solution is to have a "Program Output" window, separate from
the gdb command window.  There are a few times where it is nice to
have commands & output interleaved, but most of the time this is just
a pain.  Having a separate window is better in the long run, I think.

Now I just have to find time to implement this.  It is a bit of a
bear, since you have to get into gdb at the point where it launches
the inferior, and connect the std channels for the child to an XTerm
you have cooked up...  But doable.

Jim

 > Ok I found the "answer" to that question!
 > I had another annoying thing to report: the output of the program doesn't
 > go to the Console window, but rather to the terminal that started gdb.
 >  What do you guys think about that?  To me, it seems to be more convenient
 > for the output to go to the Console window, like DDD does...
 > Thanks!
 > Michael
 > 
 > Michael Abd-El-Malek wrote:
 > 
 > > I tried Insight for the first time now... I've been looking at it for a
 > > while, and finally I got the time to install it!
 > > It's great! All the windows are really useful... The only drawback is
 > > the use of Tcl/Tk, which makes the windows load slowers... But this is a
 > > minor irritance...
 > > One question though: in the register window, how do I make the fields
 > > narrower? They're really wide right now and they take up plenty of
 > > screen real-estate... Is it possible to resize them?
 > > All in all, this frontend is really nice and good job!
 > > Keep up the good work,
 > > Michael Abd-El-Malek
 > > 2nd year computer engineering student, University of Waterloo
 > 
 > 

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