From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fernando Nasser To: Brian Stell Cc: insight_mailing_list Subject: Re: extending Insight to display app specific data Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:03:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A0B3B2B.7FCC1F02@cygnus.com> References: <3A0B39EF.EB8C2119@netscape.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00170.html Brian Stell wrote: > > Has there been a thread on how to extend Insight > to display app specific data? > > The reason I ask is as more apps support Unicode > it is hard for the developers to see the text in strings > since the strings are no longer simple "char *". > > The strings could be UTF-8, UTF-16, some kind > of C++ object, etc. > > What provision is there for Insight users to extend > Insight to display an application specific item like > this? > Brian, You should ask first if there are plans for GDB (gdb@sources.redhat.com) to handle/display Unicode data. Insight, being the GDB GUI, will probably follow with some way to access what GDB provides. F. -- Fernando Nasser Red Hat Canada Ltd. E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9