[Qt-creator] Feature like UIVisualizer in Visual Studio

Mateusz Łoskot mateusz at loskot.net
Fri Jan 3 23:32:35 CET 2014


On 3 January 2014 22:22, Poenitz Andre <Andre.Poenitz at digia.com> wrote:
> Mateusz Łoskot [mateusz at loskot.net] wrote:
>> Visual Studio 2012 or later includes new debugger visualisation framework
>> with a feature, or interface, called UIVisualizer [1] which does the following:
>>
>> """
>> A UIVisualizer element registers a graphical visualizer plug-in with
>> the debugger.
>> A graphical visualizer plug-in creates a dialog box or another
>> interface to display
>> a variable or object in a manner that is appropriate to its data type.
>> """
>>
>> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj620914.aspx#BKMK_UIVisualizer
>>
>>
>> Does Qt Creator offer anything similar?
>
> Depends on your platform. There is nothing like that when using cdb.

I should have specified I'm interested QtC on Linux.

> When using gdb or lldb you can do anything in the python dumpers,
> including feeding data to external processes with or without gui.
> There's an example use for displaying QVector<scalar_type> using
> gnuplot in the current sources (dumper.py/qttypes.py)

Right, those are good ideas indeed.
I just wanted to know if there is anything specific related to such
features in QtC.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz  Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net



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