I’ve just published Inline Watch 0.8.6, which includes this new feature:<\/p>\n
and a bunch of features related to custom formatting of object instances:<\/p>\n
{right-left}<\/code> to display the width of a rectangle<\/li>\n- Pointer arithmetic, eg.
{m_str+4}<\/code> where your string actually starts at an offset<\/li>\n- Array indexing, eg.
{m_arr[N]}<\/code> where you want to display the N’th member of an array, where N<\/code> can be a literal, {m_arr[4]}<\/code> or another member, {m_arr[m_index]}<\/code><\/li>\n- Specifying the length of a string (when your string is long, or not null-terminated), again with a literal,
{m_str,8}<\/code>, or another member {m_str,{m_len}} <\/code><\/li>\n- Displaying braces now requires them to be backslash escaped – see the next example:<\/li>\n
- Force hex or decimal display in object formats, so if you always want your
Point<\/code> instances to be displayed in decimal like this: {50, 100}<\/span> even if the Visual Studio debugger is set to hex display, you can say \\{{m_x,d}, {m_y,d}\\}<\/code>. Use an x<\/code> to get hex display.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHere’s an example that demonstrates some of these features. \u00a0(It’s based on a customer example – they have a C++ string class whose string buffer includes a leading reference count, and is not NUL-terminated but instead has a length member.)<\/p>\n
struct<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>Formatting<\/span>\n{<\/strong><\/span>\n const<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>char<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>*<\/strong><\/span>s<\/span>;<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\/\/ 4-byte refcount then an unterminated string.<\/span>\n <\/span> int<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>len<\/span>;<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\/\/ Number of chars in the string, counting from s+4.<\/span>\n <\/span> const<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>char<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>*<\/strong><\/span>a<\/span>[<\/strong><\/span>3<\/span>];<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\/\/ An array of three C-style strings.<\/span>\n <\/span> int<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>current<\/span>;<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\/\/ Which of the three strings is the 'current' one?<\/span>\n<\/span><\/span>\n <\/span> Formatting<\/span>()<\/strong><\/span>\n <\/span> {<\/strong><\/span>\n <\/span> <\/strong>s<\/span> <\/span>=<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\"\\x1\\x2\\x3\\x4TextGARBAGEGARBAGE...\"<\/span>;<\/strong><\/span>\n <\/span> <\/strong>len<\/span> <\/span>=<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>4<\/span>;<\/strong><\/span>\n <\/span> <\/strong>a<\/span>[<\/strong><\/span>0<\/span>]<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>=<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\"Zero\"<\/span>;<\/strong><\/span>\n <\/span> <\/strong>a<\/span>[<\/strong><\/span>1<\/span>]<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>=<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\"One\"<\/span>;<\/strong><\/span>\n <\/span> <\/strong>a<\/span>[<\/strong><\/span>2<\/span>]<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>=<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\"Two\"<\/span>;<\/strong><\/span>\n <\/span> <\/strong>current<\/span> <\/span>=<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>1<\/span>;<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>\/\/ \"One\" is the string to display.<\/span>\n <\/span> }<\/strong><\/span>\n};<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\nWith an object formatting rule like this:<\/p>\n
\\{{s + 4,{len}}, {a[current]}\\}<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\na Formatting<\/code> instance displays like this: {“Text”, “One”}<\/span><\/p>\nYou can download the new release from the download page<\/a> or the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’ve just published Inline Watch 0.8.6, which includes this new feature: You can now control the maximum length of the displayed values and a bunch of features related to custom formatting of object instances: Integer arithmetic in object formats, eg. {right-left} to display the width of a rectangle Pointer arithmetic, eg. {m_str+4} where your string […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30days","category-inline-watch-changelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}