From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T04:34:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] Object Browser (#8)

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:36:17 +0900
Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:

> Florian Gross wrote:
> > Jamis Buck wrote:
> > 
> >> http://ruby.jamisbuck.org/objbrowser-03.png
> >>   This is the same, drilling down to inspect the constants defined in
> >> the class of one of the instance variables.
> >>
> >> I think something like this (maybe used in conjunction with the
> >> breakpoint and assert concepts that have been discussed on this list)
> >> would be useful in debugging, especially if the ability to modify values
> >> were added. I'm still hoping someone submits a nicer solution to the
> >> quiz than mine, since mine is pretty rough, and is really only half 
> >> done. :)
> > 
> > 
> > I agree heavily. This looks very interesting. Would you be interested in 
> > patching this so it can work with Breakpoints? I can not do it myself 
> > unfortunately as GTK is completely screwed on this machine and I think I 
> > can only fix that by reinstalling Windows...
> > 
> > The required changes would basically be using  drb_gateway.evaluate(nil, 
> > "methods")  instead of directly doing examined_obj.methods and so on.
> 
> I'd be happy to make that change, Florian, but I think it might be 
> better to combine my approach with Brian's. His is much prettier, for 
> one thing, but it also has the ability to navigate to specific instances 
> of a class, which is nice.
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm racing to get Net::SSH ready to release (I wanted to 
> do a release before Thanksgiving, but I'm not sure that'll happen). Then 
> I need to work on Net::SFTP... If no one has tackled this by the time 
> I'm done with SFTP, I'll take another look at it.
> 

My code is also in need of a good overhaul. It developed while learning how to use a Gtk::TreeView and reflection, so it is not structured very good. I'd love to merge it with Jamis solution, but I can't promise that I'll get time because I'm in the midst of my carreer-finals.

If you could point me to some description of how breakpoints works, I'll take a look next time I get too bored and want to waste some time ;)

Regards,

Brian

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