Re: Running DDD is getting harder and harder

[shaunak saha]

Hi All,

Agreed with all the DDD related issues we are seeing for last few years. Right now the older motif library based GUI is pretty outdated and the work to move it on gtk based UI is still not fully release level complete. I had been working on that few years back and had plans to release also but due to some unfortunate event all my work was gone. I also have few patches submitted by people to include in the new version. Started it again an i am hoping that by next 1-2 months i will able to release the first beta testing version of the GTK based DDD. Of course there will still be lot of work but right now i m trying by best to release at least something, specially for Apple platform as the present version does not work anymore from El capitan. 

Would appreciate if anyone else wants to contribute on the UI, this can be found at the "gddd" branch. I will dump all my changes in that branch soon. My apologies again for not able to make a release but this project is not dead and any development contribution is appreciated.

Regards,

Shaunak

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Žarko Živanov <address@hidden> wrote:

As we updated Ubuntu Linux distributions at classrooms at my faculty, it became evident that DDD isn't running as well as it once was. Most notably, its underlying graphics library gets confused about screen coordinates of source window. Arrow that should point to next line to be executed is drawn between two lines. Right click on line start instead of displaying menu with breakpoint options often displays Print options, and one needs to "hunt" a position on the line where breakpoint menu will appear (trying to click breakpoint icon while the cursor is on the beginning of the line doesnt work either in that case). Clicking on some element of source code places wrong text (usually something before or after text that was clicked on) on the display bar. In short, main interface options of a debugger became almost unusable.

As we are using DDD in an assembly course, we are now thinking about making our own GUI for GDB tailored just for that purpose. Shame, because DDD was pretty powerful tool, and now, thanks to aging underlying graphics library, slowly becomes unusable.

Best regards,
Žarko Živanov
University of Novi Sad

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