Re: [Nemiver-list] Initial memory support pushed

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon domain hid>]

On 10/7/07, Rémi Cardona <remi2402 domain hid> wrote:
> Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > I finally pushed a bunch of commits to svn that add some initial
> > support for reading memory in nemiver.  The implementation is quite
> > basic.  at this point, you can only specify an address and it will
> > read 200 bytes of data, format it slightly, and spit it into a
> > TextView widget.  So there is no support for editing memory, or
> > anything like that.  To support memory editing, we really need a full
> > 'hex-editor' widget, which will be a fairly large undertaking.
>
> Could code be borrowed from ghex for that purpose? It seems they've done
> most of the heavy lifting in the area of widgets. Just some random idea :)

Yes, In fact that was my plan originally.  I even started trying to
integrate it, but found that it makes some fundamental assumptions
that the data being edited is from a file, so it won't work directly
for us (we want to display and edit data from memory that is given to
us by gdb).  I started looking into what it would take to change ghex
to be able to edit data from file or from memory, but it was looking
like a decent amount of work and I haven't decided whether I'll
continue on that path or not (In addition, I admit that one of the
reasons for my reluctance to modify ghex to fit our needs is that I
don't want to mess with C/Gobject if I can avoid it :)

> PS, may I ask when we could expect a release with all the cool stuff you
> guys have been working on for the past few months?

unfortunately, most of the new functionality that we've been working
on lately is still fairly unpolished, so it will take a little while
before it's ready for a release, I think.  Maybe Dodji has a plan in
mind, but I can't say when the next release will be at this point.

-- 
jonner