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Re: extending Insight to display app specific data
- To: Brian Stell <bstell at netscape dot com>
- Subject: Re: extending Insight to display app specific data
- From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:02:51 +0000
- CC: insight_mailing_list <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat Canada Ltd. - Toronto
- References: <3A0B39EF.EB8C2119@netscape.com>
Brian Stell wrote:
>
> Has there been a thread on how to extend Insight
> to display app specific data?
>
> The reason I ask is as more apps support Unicode
> it is hard for the developers to see the text in strings
> since the strings are no longer simple "char *".
>
> The strings could be UTF-8, UTF-16, some kind
> of C++ object, etc.
>
> What provision is there for Insight users to extend
> Insight to display an application specific item like
> this?
>
Brian,
You should ask first if there are plans for GDB (gdb@sources.redhat.com) to
handle/display Unicode data. Insight, being the GDB GUI, will probably
follow with some way to access what GDB provides.
F.
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