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Re: `dir'
- To: James Ingham <jingham at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: `dir'
- From: Mo DeJong <mdejong at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:54:35 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: tromey at cygnus dot com, Insight List <insight at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Tom, keep those bug reports flying in. "fresh eyes" on a problem are
really good.
> Tom,
> > I hope I'm not being too annoying. I figure you'd probably rather I
> > report things.
>
> Yup, totally!
>
> >
> > I couldn't find a way to add a search directory (gdb "dir" command)
> > via the GUI.
The tk_chooseDirectory dialog is really really ugly but at least there is
a hook for it. We really need to take the nice dir selection widget from
libgui and put it into the Tcl/Tk core (replace the tk_chooseDirectory
impl with ours). It might be better to actually sit down and create a
new mega widget that works just like the Mac dir an file selection
widgets (because they are so much better than the Win or Unix ones).
Mo
> This one should be easy. I didn't do it before 'cause I didn't know
> there was a directory chooser in libgui. This is one of the silly
> omissions of Tk, it has a choose file and a save file, but no choose
> directory dialog. Actually, there is a choose directory in Tk8.3,
> though it is plug-ugly (except on the Mac, where it uses the very nice
> Navigation Services dialogs...) But I was poking my nose in libgui,
> and noted the tantelizing tclgetdir.c file...
>
> I will get to this at some point, since I agree it is annoying, but if
> some enterprising soul wants to try their hand first, cool!
>
> >
> > Invariably what happens (either with command-line or GUI) is that I
> > don't remember that I need to use "dir" until I move into a stack
> > frame where the source isn't found.
> >
> > I'd really like it if adding a directory via "dir" caused the source
> > window to update if appropriate. This would make Insight much nicer
> > than the command line (where I currently use "up ; down" to make it do
> > what I want -- lose).
>
> I am more likely to add the GUI, and have that do the right thing,
> than add another hook to the CL. Actually, it would be nice to just
> have a generic pre or post processing hook in ALL the commands
> executed by the gdb command interpreter, so you wouldn't have to go
> add the hooks into the C code to do this sort of thing. I guess we
> could add this to the console, but it might be cleaner to put it in
> the command interpreter. I will poke around a bit, it might already
> be there for all I know...
>
> >
> > Note that with Insight, the up/down trick currently doesn't work.
> > Once it can't find the file, it seems to get confused.
>
> Yes, I know about this one. This will take some work in the
> SrcTextWin code to fix, which is a bit contorted, to be polite...
>
> Jim
>
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