Proto commits in robertknight/Qt-Inspector

These 8 commits are when the Protocol Buffers files have changed:

2013-11-08

Restructure source tree and tidy up CMakeLists.txt * Move code for injected library into lib/ subdir * Use CMAKE_AUTOMOC * Adapt the library name depending on the platform The inspector does not currently work on current Mac systems because gdb is no longer available

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2011-07-18

Speed up inspector startup. * Fetch the 'skeleton' of the whole object tree in a single request on startup. The skeleton consits of the basic object properties and child IDs of each object. * Fetch the type-specific properties of each object only when an object is selected. * Separate out on-demand loading of basic object attributes in ExternalObjectProxy and on-demand loading of object properties. Serialization of certain types of property value was the expensive operation previously. That is now done only when necessary for the selected object.

2011-07-17

Preserve QVariant types and contents better when transporting them back and forth from the inspector process to the target process. Use QDataStream + QBuffer to serialize/de-serialize QVariant property values to/from byte streams.

2011-07-16

Pass the native address from the target process to the inspector for display. This means that the object pointers shown in the inspector are now correct for the QObject* in the target process, instead of being the address of the object's proxy in the inspector process.

Implement widget picking in the target process. * Add a new request type indicating that the target process should start a widget picking process. * Turn WidgetPicker into an abstract base class and move the existing code to a DirectWidgetPicker implementation. * Add ExternalWidgetPicker class which implements out-of-process widget picking using TargetApplicationProxy to submit a pick request to the target process. Widget picking is currently synchronous on the inspector process side. In other words, the inspector cannot be used again until the user picks a widget in the target process.

Support writing property updates back to the target process. * Add a new WritePropertyRequest request type to the inspector protocol and implement support for it in the inspector server. * When the user changes a property, issue a WritePropertyRequest to the target application.

Make properties in the inspector writable or read-only using property metadata supplied by the injected helper library. * Replace QString -> QVariant property map in ObjectProxy with a Property struct which can support additional metadata. * Add isWritable property to QtObject_Property protobuf message, fill it in on the target process side and write it to the proxy on the inspector side.

Add Protocol buffers IDL file for request/response messages between the inspector and the target application.