[Haiku-commits] r31066 - in haiku/trunk/src/apps/debugger: . gui gui/running_teams_window

[Philippe Houdoin]

Hi,

> I was considering not to have a team list window at all, though,
> but instead add a "Debug" button to the alert ProcessController
> shows when selecting a team. Seems the natural place to me.

Being able to launch either gdb or a graphical debugger from
ProcessController and debug_server make both sense indeed.
But a graphical debugger is also targetting beginner developers, who
be disappointed that double-clicking on
this pretty ladybug icon (hint, icons artists!) does nothing.

> The only downside is, that then there's nothing really obvious to show when the debugger
> is invoked without arguments. So maybe in that case an initial dialog asking to select a running program
> or to start a new one could be shown. Opinions welcome...

I did planned initially to change this Running Teams window into a
"Select Team" window :
  - by selecting one in the live-updated running teams list, as today
(and as in bdb)
  - by entering/browsing an executable path and, optionally, edit its
program arguments and environment variables set
Maybe, I could find some spare the time to work on that, if you don't
mind. In theory, having a valid team id to hand a debugger controller
is all you need from such GUI component, right?

Even if I've read a bit about Dwarf, libdwarf and Haiku debugger
"kit", the *meat* is definitively out of my scope,
both skills and time one.

Bye,
  Philippe.