Re: Globals Browser (does it work?) [SOLVED (sort of)]
Re: Globals Browser (does it work?) [SOLVED (sort of)]
- Subject: Re: Globals Browser (does it work?) [SOLVED (sort of)]
- From: Bill Monk <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:54:57 -0600
On Feb 21, 2006, at 7:58 AM, Frank Rimlinger wrote:
Better yet, try loading the debugging symbols for the relevant for
the libraries you wish to browse. See "Viewing Shared Libraries"
in the Xcode documentation.
Which worked, but it's the last place in the world I would have
expected to go in order to load debugging symbols for my source code.
The globals I'm interested in are defined in a file named (duh)
globals.c. They are declared extern in globals.h, which is of course
#included by files needing the globals.
In the Shared Library browser, a globals.ob entry appears. It's
Current Level was set to "-". I changed the popup to "All". XCode
immediately changed it back to "-". After doing this several times,
it finally stayed set to "All".
Back in the Globals Browser, the symbols in globals.c finally appear
and can be check-marked. These now correctly appear in the debugger
window under the Globals disclosure triangle.
Odd thing about that disclosure triangle: when there were no globals
available to be displayed, clicking it helpfully opened the Globals
Browser. Now that there are some globals checked in the Browser,
clicking the disclosure triangle to close it causes it to rotate back
to its right-pointing orientation, the gloabls text will flicker,
then the triangle immediately jumps back to pointing down.
If I click on it 6 times, it finally stays closed. Clicking it again
opens the disclosure and shows the globals checked in the browser -
that's good. But apparently now the handy shortcut of opening the
Browser window is disabled.
Although,really, it wasn't all -that- handy a shortcut, since it
didn't help get a global displayed. A much, MUCH better UI design*
would be for the first click on the Globals disclosure triangle to
open the Shared Libraries browser. Then, once the user has selected
the object files for their own source in the Shared Libraries
browser, a second click on the Globals disclosure would open Globals
Browser.
(* where "much, MUCH, better UI design" means only "far better than
the current mess")
So, question answered: Globals Browser -does- work. The process of
getting it to work is absurd (and I would love to see someone demo it
to Steve). But the Browser itself is fine.
.
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