any chance of showing array contents & classes with debugOutput() or toString() func to show their contents in ddbg?

that would be really cool

what exactly do you mean?
ddbg should output the result of a toString method of a class if it has one?
array contents and classes can already be shown component-wise.

bc wrote:
> 
> any chance of showing array contents & classes with debugOutput() or
> toString() func to show their contents in ddbg?
> 
> that would be really cool

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:43:43 +0100, Jascha Wetzel <"[firstname]"@mainia.de> wrote:

> what exactly do you mean?
> ddbg should output the result of a toString method of a class if it has one?
yes. although i realise that could have side-effects or cause errors so
maybe make it configurable or make it work on a specially named method

> array contents and classes can already be shown component-wise.
>

i mean for arrays of ints or strings or classes with a debugOutput(), to
output the first 10 or so elements along with the number of elements,
automatically. visual studio does this on vector<int>s at least and it makes a
great difference.

e.g.
TestVector = [5](10,20,30,40,50)

pretty please?

> bc wrote:
>>
>> any chance of showing array contents & classes with debugOutput() or
>> toString() func to show their contents in ddbg?
>>
>> that would be really cool

i see what you mean for classes, but arrays of ints? they are output in the only way i can imagine (make sure you use dmd 1.011 or later and ddbg 0.1 or later to not have to use type casts on arrays)

bc wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:43:43 +0100, Jascha Wetzel <"[firstname]"@mainia.de> wrote:
> 
>> what exactly do you mean?
>> ddbg should output the result of a toString method of a class if it
>> has one?
> yes. although i realise that could have side-effects or cause errors so maybe make it configurable or make it work on a specially named method
> 
>> array contents and classes can already be shown component-wise.
>>
> 
> i mean for arrays of ints or strings or classes with a debugOutput(), to
> output the first 10 or so elements along with the number of elements,
> automatically. visual studio does this on vector<int>s at least and it
> makes a
> great difference.
> 
> e.g.
> TestVector = [5](10,20,30,40,50)
> 
> pretty please?
> 
>> bc wrote:
>>>
>>> any chance of showing array contents & classes with debugOutput() or
>>> toString() func to show their contents in ddbg?
>>>
>>> that would be really cool
> 

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:00:52 +0100, Jascha Wetzel <"[firstname]"@mainia.de> wrote:

ah, it already does what i was talking about for arrays on those versions,
sorry.

> i see what you mean for classes, but arrays of ints? they are output in
> the only way i can imagine (make sure you use dmd 1.011 or later and
> ddbg 0.1 or later to not have to use type casts on arrays)
>
> bc wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:43:43 +0100, Jascha Wetzel
>> <"[firstname]"@mainia.de> wrote:
>>
>>> what exactly do you mean?
>>> ddbg should output the result of a toString method of a class if it
>>> has one?
>> yes. although i realise that could have side-effects or cause errors so
>> maybe make it configurable or make it work on a specially named method
>>
>>> array contents and classes can already be shown component-wise.
>>>
>>
>> i mean for arrays of ints or strings or classes with a debugOutput(), to
>> output the first 10 or so elements along with the number of elements,
>> automatically. visual studio does this on vector<int>s at least and it
>> makes a
>> great difference.
>>
>> e.g.
>> TestVector = [5](10,20,30,40,50)
>>
>> pretty please?
>>
>>> bc wrote:
>>>>
>>>> any chance of showing array contents & classes with debugOutput() or
>>>> toString() func to show their contents in ddbg?
>>>>
>>>> that would be really cool
>>