Eiffel - Software

Maintainer

Damian Dobroczyński

Description

Sedbov is the SmartEiffel Embedded Debugger Output Visualiser - a human interface to the SmartEiffel debugger.

Versions

(2006-08)

Details

Damian describes this as one of the "weirdest" projects he has made in his life. He tried to make a human interface to the SmartEiffel debugger - and proved that it is possible. He used the Tcl/Tk toolkit to build fancy widgets, and the quirky "expect" package to read from/to the terminal (which is the native interaction platform for the SmartEiffel debugger).

You can choose between three possible "look-and-feels" for Sedbov, according to whether you use the tile, Bwidgets or native Tk widgets.

Usage

Important: the executable you want to debug must be compiled with the -sedb option.

Locate the working directory which contains your Eiffel files together with the debug-enabled version of your binaries. This directory must contain the *.id file of your system being developed. The *.id file is necessary for retrieving the class names (so that the source files may be clicked and watched).
Copy the sedbov.tcl file to your working directory.
Run the visualizer:
wish sedbov.tcl --<name-of-skin> <name-of-executable>
On Windows type:
sedbov.tcl --<name-of-skin> <name-of-executable>
A properly-installed Tcl/Tk will react.
The <name-of-skin> might be tk, bwidget or tile.