From: Nick Roberts <nick@nick.uklinux.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Problems with new GDB toolbar
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:15:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15832.16198.358673.792906@nick.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5x8yzr95jh.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
Kim F. Storm writes:
> However, I find some of the new icon a bit confusing, and I
> notices some minor problems with it.
I agree entirely. I don't pretend they're all ideal. Some have
been taken from the Insight debugger by Cygnus/RedHat. I've
made up the others myself. They're meant to be a starting point
and I will feed back opinion on this mailing list to the
graphic designer(s) who might provide new ones.
> After first starting gdb, the first icon I clicked on
> (to get things going) was the [Go] icon. It resulted in
> a the following error:
>
> gud-format-command: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>
I can see the ambiguity. My reasoning was that the gdb command is `run' not
`go'. And that `go' being the opposite of `stop' gave a reasonable pair of
icons for the tasks of removing/setting breakpoints.
> Well, I started the program with the [Run] icon, and now wanted to
> install a breakpoint in the code... so I clicked on the [Stop] icon.
Stopping execution is exactly what the Insight debugger uses it for. But I
didn't. :-)
> It didn't work, so I did C-c C-z to stop the program...
>
> I used C-c C-b to set the breakpoint, and then clicked on [Go]
> to continue exection... and it removed the breakpoint.
>
> Ok, now a small bell rang, and I took the time to look at the tooltips;
> [Stop] means "Set Breakpoint" and [Go] means "Clear breakpoint"...
I do think that the tooltips should be the first thing to look for with a new
set of icons.
> IMO, the [Stop] button should send a stop signal to the process,
That sounds sensible.
> and the [Go] button should do the equivalent of "continue".
I prefer the current button for "continue". It seems intuitive and is part of
a set controlling execution.
> And then you should add new buttons for Set and Clear breakpoint;
> I would recommend a "red bullet" (with no text) to set a breakpoint,
> and the same "red bullet" with an "X" over it to clear the breakpoint.
This metaphor is a bit lost on me but I have seen it before.
> Also, most of the icons (except [Run]) should be "shaded" when the
> program isn't running. Also, the [Run] tooltip should be changed to
> "Restart program" when the program is running.
I don't think this can be done in gud.el. However, I think it can in
gdb-ui.el in which gdb is started with the command `gdba'. This is the file
which I've put most work into and has got a lot more new features (like
breakpoint icons in the margin, stack frames etc).
> Finally, when the gud buffer exists, the GDB toolbar seems to be used
> as the default toolbar for modes which uses the default toolbar.
> That's pretty annoying.
I don't know what the default toolbar is but I can't get the GDB toolbar in
any buffer that has gud-minor-mode set to nil. Even a buffer in fundamental
mode seems to have its own toolbar. Can you explain ?
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-18 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-17 22:48 Problems with new GDB toolbar Kim F. Storm
2002-11-17 22:50 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-18 1:15 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2002-11-18 2:17 ` Alan Shutko
2002-11-18 18:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-11-19 2:15 ` Alan Shutko
2002-11-19 18:58 ` Nick Roberts
2002-11-20 21:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-18 19:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-11-18 18:57 ` Alan Shutko
2002-11-18 20:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-11-19 1:24 ` Miles Bader
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