Re: python API to trigger a "select-frame" like event with a given location

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

>> If not: could there be an extension to "select-frame level"
>> 
>> select-frame level LOCATION
>> 
>> select-frame level -- Select a stack frame by level and show LOCATION in
>> the UI
>> 
>> or a new command
>> 
>> show-location LOCATION
>> 
>> that executes what select-frame does, but _without_ selecting anything 
>> (calling interps_notify() with the location as "selection")?

Andrew> If I understand what you need, then you are looking for way to implement
Andrew> your 'myup' and 'mydown' commands such that GDB will appear to move
Andrew> though the artificial frames (e.g. 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, etc).  To do this
Andrew> you need to select the real frame (#0), but then want some way such that
Andrew> GDB will notify the various UI's to indicate that their focus should
Andrew> shift to the source locations corresponding to the artificial frames,
Andrew> right?

Andrew> You mention, but seem to dismiss, using 'list'.  Can you expand on why
Andrew> this doesn't meet your needs?

Andrew> Which UIs in particular is it that you are interested in seeing update?
Andrew> I ask because I'm wondering which events it is that would need to be
Andrew> emitted.  Could you expand with some user stories, which UI is the user
Andrew> looking at, what actions do they perform, and what is updated as a
Andrew> consequence.

FWIW there was some discussion of some related ideas in

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18567

My view is that it would be good to have more features in this area, and
that the main barrier is just implementing them, with maybe the main
secondary problem being having convenient ways to turn them off.

thanks,
Tom