wxWidgets/misc/gdb/print.py

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# Name:         misc/gdb/print.py
# Purpose:      pretty-printers for wx data structures: this file is meant to
#               be sourced from gdb using "source -p" (or, better, autoloaded
#               in the future...)
# Author:       Vadim Zeitlin
# Created:      2009-01-04
# RCS-Id:       $Id:$
# Copyright:    (c) 2009 Vadim Zeitlin
# License:      wxWindows licence
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# Define wxFooPrinter class implementing (at least) to_string() method for each
# wxFoo class we want to pretty print. Then just add wxFoo to the types array
# in wxLookupFunction at the bottom of this file.


# shamelessly stolen from std::string example
class wxStringPrinter:
    def __init__(self, val):
        self.val = val

    def to_string(self):
        return '"' + self.val['m_impl']['_M_dataplus']['_M_p'].string() + '"'

    def display_hint(self):
        return 'string'

class wxXYPrinterBase:
    def __init__(self, val):
        self.x = val['x']
        self.y = val['y']

class wxPointPrinter(wxXYPrinterBase):
    def to_string(self):
        return '(%d, %d)' % (self.x, self.y)

class wxSizePrinter(wxXYPrinterBase):
    def to_string(self):
        return '%d*%d' % (self.x, self.y)

class wxRectPrinter(wxXYPrinterBase):
    def __init__(self, val):
        wxXYPrinterBase.__init__(self, val)
        self.width = val['width']
        self.height = val['height']

    def to_string(self):
        return '(%d, %d) %d*%d' % (self.x, self.y, self.width, self.height)


# The function looking up the pretty-printer to use for the given value.
def wxLookupFunction(val):
    # Using a list is probably ok for so few items but consider switching to a
    # set (or a dict and cache class types as the keys in it?) if needed later.
    types = ['wxString', 'wxPoint', 'wxSize', 'wxRect']

    for t in types:
        if val.type.tag == t:
            # Not sure if this is the best name to create the object of a class
            # by name but at least it beats eval()
            return globals()[t + 'Printer'](val)

    return None

gdb.pretty_printers.append(wxLookupFunction)