Feature requests...

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More feature requests:

  • The process / thread window repaints each time a thread
    is selected.

  • Can we make it so that simply moving the cursor to a new
    thread selects it (instead of having to arrow key up/down
    and then hit enter.)

Thanks,

Joseph

2

The process/thread window does refresh every time a thread is selected.
In what circumstances does it not do so for you?

Switching threads can be expensive so having a switch on every arrow
press would mean somebody trying to arrow several slots down would have
to wait through all of the switches.

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Subject: [windbg] Feature requests…

More feature requests:

  • The process / thread window repaints each time a thread
    is selected.

  • Can we make it so that simply moving the cursor to a new
    thread selects it (instead of having to arrow key up/down
    and then hit enter.)

Thanks,

Joseph

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Drew Bliss wrote:

The process/thread window does refresh every time a thread is selected.
In what circumstances does it not do so for you?

Sorry, I didn’t explain very well. The entire window repaints,
resulting in an annoying “flicker” kind of effect. The feature
I’m requesting is that I would like it to just repaint the one
(or two) items that have changed.

Switching threads can be expensive so having a switch on every arrow
press would mean somebody trying to arrow several slots down would have
to wait through all of the switches.

Maybe some sort of heuristic where it doesn’t actually do the
switch until I haven’t hit the arrow key for a half a second
or something. (I think explorer has something like this so
I can arrow through removable drives without getting prompted
to stick a disk in drive A.)

Thanks,

Joseph

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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Galbraith
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 4:43 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] Feature requests…

More feature requests:

  • The process / thread window repaints each time a thread
    is selected.

  • Can we make it so that simply moving the cursor to a new
    thread selects it (instead of having to arrow key up/down
    and then hit enter.)

Thanks,

Joseph

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A thread switch is a heavy-weight operation and many things refresh,
which is why the process/thread window does a full refresh. I don’t
believe we’ll do any mechanism to try and refresh less.

Given the current behavior with keystrokes I’m not sure we can add
instant switching, even with a delay. We’ll put it on our list to
investigate, though.

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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 4:58 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: Re: [windbg] Feature requests…

Drew Bliss wrote:

The process/thread window does refresh every time a thread is
selected.
In what circumstances does it not do so for you?

Sorry, I didn’t explain very well. The entire window repaints,
resulting in an annoying “flicker” kind of effect. The feature I’m
requesting is that I would like it to just repaint the one (or two)
items that have changed.

Switching threads can be expensive so having a switch on every arrow
press would mean somebody trying to arrow several slots down would
have to wait through all of the switches.

Maybe some sort of heuristic where it doesn’t actually do the switch
until I haven’t hit the arrow key for a half a second or something. (I
think explorer has something like this so I can arrow through removable
drives without getting prompted to stick a disk in drive A.)

Thanks,

Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Joseph
Galbraith
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 4:43 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] Feature requests…

More feature requests:

  • The process / thread window repaints each time a thread
    is selected.

  • Can we make it so that simply moving the cursor to a new
    thread selects it (instead of having to arrow key up/down
    and then hit enter.)

Thanks,

Joseph

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