[FR-devel] Brainstorming on FreeRIDE debugger

[Laurent Julliard]

Before I start working on the integration of a debugger in FreeRIDE I 
have a couple of points I'd like to discuss with you all. This is my 
vision for the first revision but I welcome your comments.

A - Push-button and/or command line
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Eventhough this eems to be more difficult to do I was tempted to make a 
debugger that one would be able to operate either through a GUI and/or 
through a text console execatly like we do when we use the -r debug 
option these days. Do you think this would be useful or is a pure GUI 
enough?


B - UI Layout
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I was thinking of doing the following for the implementation of the 
DEbugger UI

- Show the current line with an arrow sign (->) in the left hand side of 
the Scintilla pane where linu numbers are). Is this feasible with 
Scintilla by the way ?

- A click on a line would set a breakpoint there and show the line in 
red or show a red dot in the left hand side column (again where line 
numbers are). Is this feasible with Scintilla

- A new pane would show up under the editor pane with 2 tabs: one called 
'Console' where all the output of the debugged process would show up adn 
another tab where you'd see the step, next, finish, icons plus a way to 
visualize the stack frame and the threads as well as the local, global 
and instance variables

Other ideas?

Laurent
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