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Register display

Peter Robertson
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When I display the core registers in CCS 5.2, I get one long column. It is more than tedious having to scroll this up and down to see relevant registers (for example, when the only registers of current interest are a0 & b0).

Previous versions of CCS had an option to display the registers in several columns. Is this possible in CCSV5 or is there a different mechanism available to get the same effect? If so, how do you do it; it not, why was this useful feature removed thereby degrading the usability of the debugger.

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    TI__Guru**** 480691 points

    Hi Peter,

    Peter Robertson said:
    Previous versions of CCS had an option to display the registers in several columns. Is this possible in CCSV5 or is there a different mechanism available to get the same effect?

    I was not able to find a way to get the grid view or some similar feature back myself. I'll keep poking around and let you know if I find anything.

    Peter Robertson said:
    it not, why was this useful feature removed thereby degrading the usability of the debugger.

    This is a topic that has raised some heated discussion in the past on these forums. I won't get into all the details but in short, CCSv4 was based of a version of Eclipse that was modified by us (TI). We directly added additional features like grid view. Because of these direct modifications, CCSv4 was not based off "stock" Eclipse which raised all sorts of compatibility issues with plug-ins and integrating in using never versions of Eclipse itself. By popular demand, CCSv5 is based off an unmodified version of Eclipse. Mostly great but there are a few drawbacks, one of the main ones is losing the custom modifications we made to Eclipse in v4 and the loss of (some) control in adding features.

    Thanks

    ki