extending Insight to display app specific data

extending Insight to display app specific data

[Brian Stell]

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 Stell

Re: extending Insight to display app specific data

[Fernando Nasser]

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.

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Fernando Nasser
Red Hat Canada Ltd.                     E-Mail:  fnasser@redhat.com
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Toronto, Ontario   M4P 2C9

Re: extending Insight to display app specific data

[Eray Ozkural (exa)]

Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 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.

Is it possible to tell insight something like this:

   * if c++, parse the type..
   * see if it is, say, a certain standard library datatype.
   * then draw a graphical representation of the data, or dump a textual
     representation (say for the string<> type) into the watched var

Thanks,

-- 
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo