This document describe design ideas of adding catchpoints support to CDT

Workflow & UI#

• Adding catchpoint
  • From brakpoints view, right click Add catchpoint... Dialog opens. Dialog contains type of event to catch and maybe additional argument field.
  • From console, triggers adding breakpoints by backend
• Removing catchpoint
  • Removing catchpoint from breanpoints view, select breakpoint, right click -> Delete
  • From console, triggers deleting breakpoint by backend
• Vieweing/Editing
  • Select catchpoint in breakpoints view, right click -> Show breakpoint properties
  • Catchpoint properties contain common page, conditions and triggered actions.

Catchpoint contributions#

• Main Catpoints attributes would consist of Catchpoint type (event type - String) and Extra argument (Object)
• Plugin can contribute via extension points of programmatically:
  • new catchpoint type, and whether it will use extra argument or not. Label for this catchpoint type and Label for the argument.
  • for advanced editing of argument(s) plugin can contribute class that implements Control (To view/edit extra argument) and implement some interface to get/set extra argument