From kdevelop-devel  Mon May 22 06:17:12 2006
From: Vladimir Prus <ghost () cs ! msu ! su>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 06:17:12 +0000
To: kdevelop-devel
Subject: fixed font for variable values (Was: MI branch merge)
Message-Id: <200605221017.13337.ghost () cs ! msu ! su>
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On Saturday 20 May 2006 13:14, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Friday 19 May 2006 17:30, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > Hi,
> > the MI branch, which was in development since 2006-01-30, and has 100
> > commits on it at the moment, was just merged to KDevelop 3.4 branch,
> > in revision 542513.
>
> I didn't really tested, but a small comment regarding the Variables
> view: in KDevelop 3.3 the variable values were displayed in a non-fixed
> sized font and now the font used is fixed sized (Courier 10 pitch?).
> The problem is that even on a large display (I have 1280x1024) it takes
> too much space and you see too little from the variable value. I
> suggest to switch back to a font which is less wider. If you want, I
> can send screenshots with the difference.

The thing is that when say, looking at pointer values, fixed font is *much* 
better (IMO). And use smaller font size can make things unreadable. I'm at 
loss.

> Oops, I got a crash when trying to unset a breakpoint (the currently
> debugged line was I believe the line on which the breakpoint was):
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 47913848629312 (LWP 4105)]
> [New Thread 1082132800 (LWP 4126)]
> [KCrash handler]
> #5  0x0000000000000191 in ?? ()
> #6  0x00002b93cf7f6121 in __dynamic_cast ()

That's not yet enough information. I'll post a separate message about 
reporting debugger bugs right now.

Thanks,
Volodya

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