CodeLite IDE

CodeLite 5.1 Ubuntu 12.4 under VmPlayer

I followed the instructions in another post regarding the debugger check box for "Use predefined types..."

But still when I look at a string contained within a class I first see lots of std::string internal information and (if I even can) I have to scroll horizontally very far to see what the actual string value. Is this setting supposed to cause the display of just the "payload" of the string?

Use codelite 5.2, and then enable 'Settings -> GDB Settings -> General' and tick the option 'Enable GDB Pretty Printing'

Eran

I've finally upgraded to 5.2 and have ticked "predefined types" and "pretty printing".

But I still have to expand a string about 5 levels before I see it's contents. Is this the intended behavior, or I do I need to to change some other settings?

to be able to view std::string you should have a gdb with python enabled.
Eran

Under "debugger settings" I don't see any specific option to enable Python. But, on the "startup commands" panel the first line is "python".

Is there something else that needs to be done?

I used to have the same problem which I resolved by checking the above-mentioned options and unchecking "Auto cast 'car[] into 'char*'".

I have different CL versions on different PCs though, incl. different wx builds (that may or not use std::string for wxString), so there are a number of factors involved, but never came across a show-stopper.

cheers,

-- p