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rdnelson / Libra

An 8086 emulator with a focus on educational features.
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Add right-click on instruction listing to set breakpoint #144

Closed hasithvm closed 11 years ago

hasithvm commented 11 years ago

This is the way NoICE does it, and it's an intuitive enhancement. Rather than selecting an instruction in the listing and doing the menu dance, it's far more intuitive to simply right-click->Set Breakpoint, or something similar.

Possible Issues

  1. Differentiating between data and instructions.
  2. ...

Any thoughts? @DarrenStahl @rdnelson

rdnelson commented 11 years ago

I agree. This is still an immature feature, along with the lack of conditional breakpoints and watches. I'll start working on these this weekend.

As for the issues, I don't see a problem setting a breakpoint on data, because it'll never get hit, but IP could potentially be set to it.