On 15/11/13 11:10, Ankit Shah wrote:
> From the LyX.cpp i got the dispatch function like this: void
> dispatch(FuncRequest const & action) { LAPPERR(theApp()); return
> theApp()->dispatch(action); } I understood that it calls dispatch()
> something from the theApp() class(/function ?) But looking at the
> Dialog.h file, the dispatch function is already defined in namespace
> lyx and in it's definition(in Dialog.cpp) it calls again itself using
> lyx::dispatch(fr). I'm not getting which function definiton does it
> finally jump to.
and so it's calling the virtual method of Application.h, which is implemented
in qt4/GuiApplication.cpp.
Forgot to mention: you may want to also enable -dbg action, in order to track
the dispatching mechanism.
> I actually just use sublime text 3 editor don't know any IDE for such
> big projects, have just used Eclipse CDT IDE. What IDE do you use for
> debugging and tracking method calls as they are called for line by
> line debugging?
I use Emacs for editing, and gdb for debugging. I advise you to use
a regular text editor for editing (I ack Emacs may have a non-trivial
learning curve if you don't know it), and gdb as well for debugging.
Ok, you may try kdbg to just have a minimum of GUI for step-by-step
debugging.
Eclipse is fantastic for Java, but in my experience not as much for
C/C++, and ultimately it's really slow to launch.
> I decided to trace down simple find and replace box
> invoked via Ctrl + F(and not the Advanced Find and Replace via
> Ctrl+Shift+F).
the flow of info is very similar. You have to know that:
-) an LFUN (see src/FuncRequest.h) has an action code identifying the type of
action we're dispatching (e.g., move cursor right, go to beginning of
document, cut selection, ... see src/LyXAction.cpp for all defined actions),
and a string argument, retrieved through FuncRequest::argument()
-) in Advanced F&R and a few other LFUNs, that need to transmit complex
structured
information from the GUI/front-end to the back-end model/engine, we encode
these structured options (e.g., what to find, what to replace with, whether
or
not to be case-sensitive, etc...), into the LFUN argument string. Later,
these
params are recovered back and used...
... you can see this in the code following what happens to a
FindAndReplaceOptions
structure.
T.
