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RE: More screen shots...
- To: 'Fernando Nasser' <fnasser at redhat dot com>, Ian Roxborough <irox at redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: More screen shots...
- From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:22:53 +0200
- Cc: insight at sources dot redhat dot com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fernando Nasser [mailto:fnasser@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 7:45 PM
> To: Ian Roxborough
> Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: More screen shots...
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> P.S.: If you remove the address/line number from the toolbar I will be
> tempted
> to replace the stack controls with something that shows at what level
> you are
> in. I thought of a spin box but with an additional button to
> the right
> to allow
> going straight to the top. It would also allow someone to type the
> stack frame
> number in the entry box (something we can't do now).
Another solution is to have a combobox that displays the list of frames like
a "where" command do: it's usually very convenient in one click to be able
to look at wheer I am and then jump directly to the proper frame, knowing
what it is.
Going directly to frame #7 needs you to know what this is... Going directly
in the "foobar" function invocation that calls you is a lot more intuitive.
What I've done in a GUI for GDB (but one that's by far not as nice as
Insight) i systematically ask GDB for a backtrace and place it in a combobox
in the toolbar (I appended a screenshot to give an idea of the result; sorry
I can't just place a link).
Sure this has some cost (one backtrace), but it proves quite useful.
Just my .02$
Bernard
PS: and thanks to all for the good work done on Insight.
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