Re: [boost] Graphical debugging extension for VS2015 (Container, Geometry, Polygon, Variant, ...)

Subject: Re: [boost] Graphical debugging extension for VS2015 (Container, Geometry, Polygon, Variant, ...)
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-16 12:52:46

On 16/09/2015 3:15, Adam Wulkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some time now I've been thinking about extending the capabilities of
> a debugger and to visualize data in more convenient way than the raw
> numbers. It's obvious to me that in many cases variables could be
> graphically visualized, in many cases this is the "natural"
> representation, this would greately simplify the debugging. I haven't
> found anything like it so I've decided to play with the VS2015
> extensions, mostly because they're easy to write. This is what I came up
> with (see the readme):
>
> https://github.com/awulkiew/graphical-debugging

Adam, this is awesome. I think we should somehow standardize those 
visualizers in Boost. Maybe another Boost library could be the answer, 
including pretty-printers for GDB. Any visualizer or pretty-printer 
expert in the community?

This could be also a really useful project for GSOC.

Best,

Ion