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General Category => Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software => Topic started by: Controls Guy on May 09, 2022, 07:23:43 PM

Title: Feature request -- include values of Symbolic Constants when comparing programs
Post by: Controls Guy on May 09, 2022, 07:23:43 PM
I know that DMD views SKs as documentation, but they actually have a bearing on program execution.

Could you consider adding a comparison of the values to program comparisons?   Thanks!
Title: Re: Feature request -- include values of Symbolic Constants when comparing programs
Post by: Bolt on May 09, 2022, 10:24:50 PM
Can you also make the symbolic constants viewable from a Data View?  No telling how many times I've been debugging a program, and it says SomeNumber, and I want to see what SomeNumber is, only to find it won't populate in a Data View and then it dawns on me to check the Documentation...
Title: Re: Feature request -- include values of Symbolic Constants when comparing programs
Post by: Controls Guy on May 10, 2022, 01:02:36 AM
Oh yeah, that one bites me on a regular basis too.
Title: Re: Feature request -- include values of Symbolic Constants when comparing programs
Post by: franji1 on May 10, 2022, 09:10:41 AM
Quote from: Bolt on May 09, 2022, 10:24:50 PM
Can you also make the symbolic constants viewable from a Data View?  No telling how many times I've been debugging a program, and it says SomeNumber, and I want to see what SomeNumber is, only to find it won't populate in a Data View and then it dawns on me to check the Documentation...
Good idea.

We do that for Trend View (SC or just regular constants).  They show up as a dotted line across all time and space.
Title: Re: Feature request -- include values of Symbolic Constants when comparing programs
Post by: franji1 on May 10, 2022, 09:11:48 AM
Quote from: Controls Guy on May 09, 2022, 07:23:43 PM
I know that DMD views SKs as documentation, but they actually have a bearing on program execution.

Could you consider adding a comparison of the values to program comparisons?   Thanks!

Interesting from an implementation standpoint.  Great idea regardless.