Better debug support in visual studio

Alex X

Posted Sat, 01 Jun 2019 19:45:00 GMT

One problem with gtkD is that because it wraps gtk one ends up with objects that, when inspected in visual studio, look like

gtk.CellRenderer.CellRenderer 0x000001b41de225c0 {gtkCellRenderer=0x000001b41f0b1690 {parentInstance={gTypeInstance={gClass=0x000001b41e14f530 {gType=1873124484752}}, ...}, ...}} gtk.CellRenderer.CellRenderer
gobject.ObjectG.ObjectG 0x000001b41de225c0 {gObject=0x000001b41f0b1690 {gTypeInstance={gClass=0x000001b41e14f530 {gType=1873124484752}}, ...}, ...} gobject.ObjectG.ObjectG
```
object.Object	0x000001b41de225c0 {}	object.Object
```
gObject 0x000001b41f0b1690 {gTypeInstance={gClass=0x000001b41e14f530 {gType=1873124484752}}, refCount=10, qdata=0x000001b41f26fd91} gobject.c.types.GObject*
```
ownedRef	false	bool
isGcRoot	true	bool
signals	0x0000000000000000	gobject.DClosure.DClosure[uint]
```

gtkCellRenderer 0x000001b41f0b1690 {parentInstance={gTypeInstance={gClass=0x000001b41e14f530 {gType=1873124484752}}, refCount=10, qdata=0x000001b41f26fd91}, ...} gtk.c.types.GtkCellRenderer*

parentInstance	{gTypeInstance={gClass=0x000001b41e14f530 {gType=1873124484752}}, refCount=10, qdata=0x000001b41f26fd91 {}}	gobject.c.types.GObject
priv	0x000001b41f0b1650 {}	gtk.c.types.GtkCellRendererPrivate*

gtkCellRendererText 0x000001b41f0b1690 {parent={parentInstance={gTypeInstance={gClass=0x000001b41e14f530 {gType=1873124484752}}, refCount=10, qdata=0x000001b41f26fd91}, ...}, ...} gtk.c.types.GtkCellRendererText*

parent	{parentInstance={gTypeInstance={gClass=0x000001b41e14f530 {gType=1873124484752}}, refCount=10, qdata=0x000001b41f26fd91 {}}, ...}	gtk.c.types.GtkCellRenderer
priv	0x000001b41f0b15a0 {}	gtk.c.types.GtkCellRendererTextPrivate*

which is a bunch of useless information that tells one nothing about the information of the object one is dealing with(except the type).

I wonder if this could be improved upon and relevant information could be shown, such as a labels text, etc?