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User forums => General (but related to Code::Blocks) => Topic started by: peso on March 23, 2006, 09:18:05 am

Title: Debugger Visualizer
Post by: peso on March 23, 2006, 09:18:05 am

Hi guys.

I just seen the Visual Studio Debugger Visualizer in action, and this looks like a very very nice addition to a gui that does debugging.

See http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/ImageVisualizer.asp

The idea is to write a small piece of code that can be run during a debugging session to display your data structures. Lets say you are writing a chess engine, using bitboards. Whith this you can draw a chess diagram in a small window, instead of manually inspecting a lot of bits.

This is not a feature that codeblocks have today, but is it possible at all to do this kind of stuff? I suspect you would need some way to make gdb call code in a codeblocks plugin. Is it a major change to gdb, intead of to codeblocks?

Regards,
peso

Title: Re: Debugger Visualizer
Post by: thomas on March 23, 2006, 09:30:47 am

Code::Blocks can do that.

Title: Re: Debugger Visualizer
Post by: Game_Ender on March 23, 2006, 05:56:29 pm

I don't think its possible to open up another window to visualize something but the can you make a debugger script.  This script is called by Code::Blocks when ever GDB encounters your variable type and can be used to show custom text with the important information you need in it.  Search for "debugger scripts" on the forum.  I don't think this feature is documented.

Title: Re: Debugger Visualizer
Post by: Game_Ender on March 23, 2006, 05:57:46 pm

By the way, that only works for C# apps, so if CB can do this for C++ then we will be one step ahead of the VS 2005.