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Re: What should be in the next version of RcxCC
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 03:38:32 GMT
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You can also choose "show code/error listing" under the compile menu to get
the variable assignments.
Mike
Uwe Denzer <Uwe.Denzer@munich.netsurf.de> wrote in message
news:386F928E.984386BE@munich.netsurf.de...
> Mark Overmars wrote:
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> > Dear RcxCC users,
> >
> > I am running out of ideas of what to add to Rcx Command Center. So I • like to
> > ask you what you like to see next. Please be as specific as you can....
>
> After spending another two nights with NQC & RcxCC (:-), another wish came • up in
> my mind quite clearly:
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> I use the "Watching the RCX" tool window quite frequently for debugging, • and I'd
> find it great if it could display the *names* of the traced variables • instead of
> only their number.
> So, I have two suggestions for a next version of RcxCC:
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> Either
> (a) display the variable names in the "Watching the RCX" window
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> or (if the above is too difficult)
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> (b) please simply make it easier to inspect the "TEMP.LST" file manually • (this
> file contains the mapping between variable numbers and names).
>
> Currently, RcxCC makes it hard to inspect that LST file, since it is • always
> automatically deletes it after download. (Actually, I found myself quite
> frequently hovering with the mouse pointer over an Explorer view of the • RcxCC
> directory in order to catch that file in the act and copy it to some safe • place
> before it disappeared :-)
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> I think idea (b) could - again- be realized in two ways, one very simple • and one
> more comfortable:
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> (b1) (simple): Just add a switch in the preferences that lets the user • choose if
> TEMP.LST shall be automatically deleted or not. (If not, it would then be • the
> user's responsibility to pick off that file with his editor or viewer and • make
> sure it is the right one and so on...).
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> (b2)(more comfortable): Add a switch to preferences that will cause • TEMP.LST
> automatically be loaded into a separate RcxCC edit window. (Just for • viewing, of
> course. It could be made read-only.)
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> In any case, of course, idea (a) would be the nicest, coming close to a • real
> symbolic debugger. But perhaps there are some obstacles in realizing it of • which
> I'm not aware...
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> What do other users think of the above?
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> Uwe
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