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User forums => Using Code::Blocks => Topic started by: cowboy65 on April 13, 2011, 01:21:34 am
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I recently moved to wxGTK-2.9.1. My other system components are Ubuntu 10.10 and Code::Blocks 10.05. When I want to watch a wxString variable in the debugger, I cannot set a watch on it, and the tooltip mode complains about not finding a wxStringData variable in the context. The debugger reported when it first started that is had registered a new type - wxString. Researching this problem suggested it was related to switching to Unicode mode for all wxStrings, and further that gdb_types.script should allow the gdb debugger to deal with this. Looking into that script, I see it is apparently accessing an internal component of wxString that is of type wxStringData. My version of the script is dated 2010-08-10. Looking into wx/string.h, I find no mention of wxStringData in that file.
I know most people using wxGTK-2.9.1 and C::B need to debug wxString variables, so there must be a way to do it that I have overlooked in my setup. Any suggestions?
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Install python enabled debugger, wx python scripts for gdb and disable the wxString handling in gdb_types.script.
This is the best way to debug wxString.
The wxString was changed in 2.9, so probably the gdb script in C::B is broken and won't be fixed,
because the python pretty printers are better suited for the task.