MI & pretty-printing

[Vladimir Prus]

On Thursday 10 September 2009 Tom Tromey wrote:

> >>>>> "Volodya" == Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> Volodya> 1. Do you think it would be OK to make the has_more field
> Volodya> always present?  This will allow to simplify the frontend code
> Volodya> a bit? 
> 
> I actually did this already just to simplify the code :)
> 
> Volodya> For non-dynamic varobjs, it should be non-zero in var-create
> Volodya> response if there are children.
> 
> For non-dynamic ones, numchild is correct and has_more=0 always.
> This made the most sense to me.  But, we can change it if you want.

I though about this, and I think the current behaviour is fine.
Sorry for incoherent comments.

> Volodya> 2. Do you think it would be OK to add a special field to
> Volodya> indicate that varobj is dynamic? For example, if I expand a
> Volodya> regular varobj, I probably want to fetch every field, while for
> Volodya> dynamic, I want to fetch just 10.
> 
> It would be fine by me.  Just let me know what you want it to be called
> and I will implement it tomorrow.

I guess I need to play more with this to figure if I need it now.

Can we please have this in CVS HEAD, so that I can have other kdevelop users
bang at it?

Thanks,
Volodya

who can play?