Re: Source Window - pop-up over array elements

[Larry Smith <larry at smith-house dot org>]

Larry Smith wrote:

> The problem is that one doesn't "highlight" - one "clicks
> on" - and it's up to gdbtk's tcl code to scan back and
> forth and figure out what variable it is looking at.

> This is done in srctextwin.itb in the GetVariable method.  It
> just uses a regular expression scan out a string consisting
> of upper and lower case letters, digits, and any of "_", "-",
> "." and (I wonder about this) ">".  It can't actually parse
> the source code and pull out a genuine variable complete with
> specifiers, array selections, and the like.  This is basically
> the same deal as with comments which we discussed earlier,
> to gdbtk, this is just text, and it doesn't know C, Fortran,
> Ada, Pascal, Java, or whatever...

I haven't gotten any responses pro or con except from
Tom, aside from Syd's comment not to special-case anything.
Absent any more feedback, I'm going to close/reject this
at COB today.

regards,
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