GUI configuration changes (How to?)

GUI configuration changes (How to?)

[Gene Smith]

I use insight all the time for debugging an embedded system. 
Unfortunately, some of the source file names are now so long that they 
don't fit in the box in the top upper left of the main window. Is there 
a way to make that box wide enough so accommodate the longest file name 
automatically? (This would require that the middle box containing 
function names to automatically become smaller, however, I never use 
this box anyhow.)

If there is no way to make the boxes automatically adapt, is there a way 
to just make file name box some wider and the function name box 
narrower? That would be OK too. Rebuilding the code is not a problem. 
But I have no clue where in the code (tk/tcl?) this is determined

I can scroll the file name box content (only when dropped down) but it 
is somewhat awkward and it forces you to always select something. There 
is also a function browser window that does allow you to see a wider 
view of the filename list, but I don't see a way for the selected file 
there to instantly appear in the main window, only in its own file 
viewer window.

Thanks,
-gene

Re: GUI configuration changes (How to?)

[Keith Seitz]

On 12/21/2012 03:54 PM, Gene Smith wrote:
> Unfortunately, some of the source file names are now so long that they
> don't fit in the box in the top upper left of the main window. Is there
> a way to make that box wide enough so accommodate the longest file name
> automatically? (This would require that the middle box containing
> function names to automatically become smaller, however, I never use
> this box anyhow.)

That is a possibility. A nicer (and more costly implementation) would be 
to decide upon some sort of heuristic for displaying very long names, 
e.g, display the last N characters of the filename preceded by "..." and 
then use hover balloons to display the full filename if the user hovers 
over it. [That last bit is probably slightly tricky.]

The code to fill the combobox is in srcwin.itb, SrcWin::fillNameCB.

> But I have no clue where in the code (tk/tcl?) this is determined

These are in srcwin.itb. Look for the combobox::combobox calls for 
$_statbar.name and $_statbar.func in SrcWin::_build_win.

> I can scroll the file name box content (only when dropped down) but it
> is somewhat awkward and it forces you to always select something.

Hmm. On Linux at least, hitting escape or clicking outside the bounds of 
the combobox will cancel the drop down. Does it not do this for you? 
[What host/Tcl version?]

> There is also a function browser window that does allow you to see a wider
> view of the filename list, but I don't see a way for the selected file
> there to instantly appear in the main window, only in its own file
> viewer window.

Adding an item to open in the main source window should be doable (and 
relatively easy).

Keith