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CDT/Archive/Debug/Catchpoints support
This document describe design ideas of adding catchpoints support to CDT
Workflow & UI
- Adding catchpoint
- From breakpoints view, right click Add catchpoint... Dialog opens. Dialog contains type of event to catch and maybe additional argument field.
- From console, triggers adding breakpoints by backend
- Removing catchpoint
- Removing catchpoint from breakpoints view, select breakpoint, right click -> Delete
- From console, triggers deleting breakpoint by backend
- Viewing/Editing
- Select catchpoint in breakpoints view, right click -> Show breakpoint properties
- Catchpoint properties contain common page, conditions and triggered actions.
Catchpoint contributions
- Main Catpoints attributes would consist of Catchpoint type (event type - String) and Extra argument (Object)
- Plugin can contribute via extension points of programmatically:
- new catchpoint type, and whether it will use extra argument or not. Label for this catchpoint type and Label for the argument.
- for advanced editing of argument(s) plugin can contribute class that implements Control (To view/edit extra argument) and implement some interface to get/set extra argument
Implementation
- CBreakpoint already provides extensibility mechanism that can be used for catchpoint contributions?
- To represent event type there is two options: use marker type or use marker attribute