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Disasm view UX issues
Disassembler view is very hard to use:
- source view on the left only shows top level function, and all inlined functions are not shown (e.g from another source file) - so I can only see the disassembled view for those
- columns are not resizable and the source is cut of by other columns with no way to get it to appear. would be nice if I could resize columns manually
To illustrate, there is a lot of disassembled stuff here, but the source view is stuck at the few lines on the left:
Other than these, hotspot is becoming a really nice tool! thanks :)
I think @lievenhey was experimenting with one approach to improve the situation over at https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/pull/494 but it's very non-trivial since the normal information we get from objdump isn't good enough for what we want to do I fear.
hmm the inlines are detected well as seen on the right side.
I only wish the left side would not be stuck at that single source file and I could either select another or it would shift to another source file based on which line is selected on the right side.
also the column widths.. should hopefully be simple to allow users to expand the length of the source lines manually?
For the source view - are you really sure you (always) need all those columns for your analysis? If not, then just right-click on those and disable them, providing more space for the code (the UI records your last setup and you can always use right-click on the header line to get them back as needed).
I tried. there is a lot of right clicks involved and it doesn't remember when the view is reopened..
why not to allow adjusting the width?
I agree, some of these suggestions sound nice and easy. The file annotation navigation may be a bit tricky, depending on what we currently do - it's been too long since I investigated this in detail. Still, I split this off into its own subtask now