Version: 3.4.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: Gentoo Packages I'm debugging a lib that is loaded by a 3rd party app, so I am using the "attach to process" function repeatedly. Every time I start the debug process I have to type the process name in the filter to locate the PID. It would be much more efficient if the text I typed in the filter wasn't cleared, so I could just click on the process I quicker. ..and/or.. In the "(QMake) Project Settings" window I could set the process name to be used as default filter.
I believe the right interface should be to have to commands. "Attach" would try to attach to the current launch configuration -- by finding all processes with the same executable as specified in the launch config. If only one executable is found, no dialog box is popped up. "Attach to..." would show the selection dialog that is shown today. How does that sound?
Sounds perfect, it would really solve my 'problem'. However, it might not be intuitive to someone building a .so project that that is how it works. So maybe a tip might be helpful in the "Attach to..." dialog. For example, when I built my .so, I was using Apache so I did not set any launch config since the process was started automatically. I would then just set the launch config to inform the debbuger which process to attach to, and not to actually launch the process, therefore it would not be intuitive that I needed to do that. Another thing that might help is that when more looking for processes, filter out all of those that have different UID or GID. Right now, I cannot see any "Attach to..." menu; this must be because I am now using KDev in OS X, so if I said anything stupid, please forgive me.
Git commit 69ab04bd57781a1183a9b29d3c179de41967e2f8 by Niko Sams. Committed on 31/12/2011 at 10:16. Pushed by nsams into branch '4.3'. gdb process selection: remember state of dialog M +13 -0 debuggers/gdb/processselection.cpp M +1 -0 debuggers/gdb/processselection.h http://commits.kde.org/kdevelop/69ab04bd57781a1183a9b29d3c179de41967e2f8