[lkcd-devel] checked in graphical user interface Qlcrash

[Michael H. <HO...@de...>]

Hi all!

Today we have checked in Qlcrash on Source Forge.

QLcrash is a graphical user interface for the command line tool lcrash.
Its main goal is to display data structures in a userfriendly way.
E.g. the user can follow pointers in data structures just by clicking on
the
desired element.

In order to perform as few changes to lcrash as possible, QLcrash has
been designed as a standalone program which forks lcrash as a child
process. This solution requires QLcrash to parse stdout and stderr of
lcrash. Because of this fact, changes to the output format of lcrash should
be handled very carefully in the future.

Qlcrash is published under the LGPL and works with the QT library from
Tolltech. QT versions 2.2 and 2.3 are tested, the new QT version 3.0 is
currently untested. Qlcrash can be compiled either under Linux or under
Windows.

There currently exist two Qlcrash plugins, which are used for
communication with the underlying lcrash. The local plugin
communicates through Unix Domain sockets with lcrash.
The remote plugin uses TCP/IP to communicate with a daemon called
lcrashd which in turn calls lcrash again. The remote plugin is
especially useful when running Qlcrash under Windows.

The Qlcrash sources can be found under lkcdutils/qlcrash.
To build Qlcrash you have to do the following:

> cd qlcrash
> make -f Makefile.dist
> ./configure
> make
> make install

To build the lcrashd do the following:

> cd lcrashd
> make -f Makefile.am
> ./configure
> make
> make install

For further details of lcrashd please look at the corresponding
README file.

Qlcrash itself has a small online manual which should be
sufficient for making the first steps with the program.

Qlcrash is mainly developed by Michael Geselbracht.
Fritz Elfert has written the plugins and has ported it to Windows.

We hope that you all will like Qlcrash!
Please try it out and give us feedback!


       Michael

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