TODO list

[Kobzol]

Below are a few things (in no particular order of importance) that should be improved in the extension, I plan to work on these over the upcoming weeks. I'm lazy, so I put them all inside one issue :) I will separate them into sub-issues as needed.

• [ ] Visualize global variables
• [ ] Improve loading of strings (- https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/9)
  • [ ] Add the option to load only a part of a string
• [ ] Add stepping buttons
  • Same as in the VSCode debugger, continue, step over, step in, step out, pause etc.
• [ ] Improve styling
  • Common primitive data types (e.g. ints and floats) could be rendered with some badge, to reduce the space of int
  • React to dark/light VSCode theme
• [x] Handle read memory errors
• [x] On-demand loading (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/16)
  • Nested values (e.g. the field of a struct that is a field of a struct that is an element of an array) should be only loaded on-demand, after the user clicks on them.
  • It would be nice to create some renderless Vue component to handle this universally (or include the logic inside Value).
• [x] Visualize structures (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/15)
• [x] Visualize enums (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/14)
• [x] Visualize heap allocations (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/13)
• [x] Handle opaque pointers (FILE*) (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/12)
• [x] Fix overlapping tooltips (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/7)
• [x] Visualize strings (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/6)
• [x] Re-enable pointer array visualization (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/8)
• [x] Make stack frames a pointer target (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/8)
• [x] Handle request errors (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/5)
• [x] Add some configuration
  • [x] A "turn off" button (https://github.com/Kobzol/memviz/pull/4)
  • [x] A checkbox that controls whether heap allocations should be tracked ()

[rababR1]

How about support for Windows? I came across this and I found it very useful so I can visualize C/C++ programs, but its for Linux... :(

[Kobzol]

I'm doing a few Linux specific things, but these could be skipped. I'm also doing a lot of GDB specific things though, that's not possible to remove without rewriting half of the extension. Could you use the extension with GDB, e.g. through mingw?

Btw, the extension already works on WSL.

[rababR1]

Sadly, no. I don't plan to use WSL, but I have MingGW: I really wish there was a separate extension for Windows, maybe that can solve rewriting half of the extension