seer/CHANGELOG.md

Seer Change Log

[1.11beta] - 2022-MM-DD

• Thread/Process manager.
  • Add a fork/vfork mode. Follow:
    • Parent process.
    • Child process.
    • Both (switchable via thread manager)
    • (see gdb's follow-fork-mode and detach-on-fork modes)
  • Add thread execution mode. Execute:
    • Selected thread only.
    • All threads
    • (see gdb's scheduler-locking mode)
  • Add multi-process execution mode.
    • Execute selected process.
    • Execute all processes.
    • (see gdb's schedule-multiple mode)
• Add Help to Thread/Process browser.
• Add Help to Stack Frame browser.
• Add Help to Variable/Register browser.
• Add Help to Struct Visualizer.
• Add RMB menu to progress indicator to select indicator type.

[1.10] - 2022-09-22

• New Struct Visualizer.
  • Built apon gdb's -var-obj framework.
  • Can recursively show the contents of a struct/class.
  • Show datatype of each member. (Value or pointer)
  • Can modify values of simple datatypes.
• Improve Source Browsing.
  • See new options in 'Source' config page.
  • Ignore opening files from a list of directories. Like system directories that don't exist.
  • Better sorting of program's files into "Source", "Header", and "Misc" folders in the SourceBrowser by having a list of filename patterns for each folder.
• The list of C/C++ file suffixes for syntax highlighting is configurable.
• Changed to CreativeCommons and GPLv3 icons.
  • Friendlier license to use icons.
  • Breeze Icon set for most things. (GPLv3)
  • Icons from these sites that require CreativeCommon license. (Simple attribution). icon-icons.com thenounproject.com

[1.9] - 2022-08-30

• Rename 'seer' binary to 'seergdb'. The name conflicts with another opensource project.
• Prepare for better Debian (and other distros) packaging and releasing.
• Add history (up/down arrows) to all line input fields.
  • Variable logger, tracker browsers.
  • Source, function, types, statics, library browsers.
  • Struct, memory, array visualizers.
  • Code and assembly editors.
  • Console.
• Add StructVisualizer to source/assembly editors and stack arguments/locals browsers.
• Add a RMB to launch Memory/Array/Struct viewer from a running Struct viewer.
• Change 'detachtab' to use RMB context menu instead of a double-click.
• Allow filenames with spaces when setting breakpoints.

[1.8] - 2022-08-08

• Add StructVisualizer

  • New visualizer to view the contents of a C/C++ struct or a C++ class in a tree.
  • Click on the "StructVisualizer" in the menubar or "View -> Struct Visualizer".
  • Enter the name of the variable in the text section.
  • examples: "*this" "mystruct" "mystruct.member"
  • The variable text section has a history. So you can use the UP and DOWN arrows to select previous entries.
  • Manually refresh the view or click on "Auto" to refresh the view at each stopping point (after a step/next/breakpoint).

• Add Dark theme option for Seer's code editor. Set in Seer config page.

  • Works for C/C++ source tabs and the assembly tab.

• Register browser.

  • Can now edit register values.
  • Either by double-clicking the register value or by RMB context menu to bring up a dialog.
  • Add format selector for register values.
  • Improve detection of changed register values from previous stopping point.

• Assembly support.

  • Add assembly config page for certain assembly settings.
    • assembly style
    • C++ symbol demangling.
    • Keep assembly tab on top.
    • Show assembly tab on Seer startup.
  • Launch MemoryVisualizer and ArrayVisualizer from the Assembly tab on highlighter text.

• Debug options for launching program.

  • No break on program start.
  • Break in "main".
  • Break in function.
  • Break at address.
  • Randomize program's start address.

• ArrayVisualizer and MemoryVisualizer now allow an address as the variable name.

• A menu to experiment setting Seer with different Qt gui styles.

  • See "View -> Styles"

• Bugs fixes.

  • Fixed double refresh bug in code editor.
  • Fixed bug when displaying assembly for the first time. It wasn't showing the current line.
  • Fixed background color problem in MemoryVisualizer for disassembly.

[1.7] - 2022-07-04

• Add an assembly tab, along side the source tabs in the Code Manager.
  • Shows the program's assembly.
  • Enable with "View -> Assembly View"
  • Can set and show breakpoints.
  • Highlight the current instruction.
  • Step by instruction (Nexti and Stepi).
  • Double-clicking on entries in the "Breakpoints" tab and the "Stack frames" tab will show the assembly for those addresses.
  • ^F to bring up search bar in Assembly tab.
• Fix some minor bugs.