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User forums => Using Code::Blocks => Topic started by: mijewen on June 27, 2014, 01:45:38 am
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It would be a great feature if structures were stated by their name under Watches with a little "+" beside them for expansion of their contents.
Does such a feature exist? At the moment (though I'm still a very newbie) I can only see them by writing the struct member onto a new Watch line.
To explain,
main()
{ struct my_test
{ int i;
char c;
char s[10];
} test;
// do some stuff...
}
When viewing this under GDB, it would be nice if Watches showed, on one line ...
+ test struct my_test
It already does this, (without the "+"), but if the + was clicked, it would list ...
- test struct my_test
test.i 4 int
test.c h char
test.s my_string char
Today is my first on this forum, so if I should have asked this under Suggestions, please just direct me there, though I asked it here because I think it may already be possible (I hope)
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It is implemented in all versions. But it doesn't dereference pointers automatically.
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I'm sorry to be thick about this, but I don't understand what you mean by "it doesn't dereference pointers"
When you say that all versions implement it, do you mean that what I wanted (expansion of structures / unions) is already implemented, so that I can see the value of ...
my_struct.member
... without specifically typing in "my_struct.member" onto a new Watches line?
Currently, if I highlight the line containing my_struct and click the button in the second column, it opens a new dialogue frame, but all it contains is..
(struct my_struct *) 0x32470
It doesn't expand the contents.
I should have mentioned that I'm running C::B under Windows XP SP3.
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I'm sorry to be thick about this, but I don't understand what you mean by "it doesn't dereference pointers"
If you have MyStruct *ptrToStruct and add ptrToStruct in the watches it will print the value of the pointer and not the value of the struct.
You have to either add *ptrToStruct to the watches or right click on it and select "Dereference ptrToStruct" in the context menu.
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OK, got it.
Thanks for your patience.