[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51847] Variable Editor should be able to show struct internals

[Philip Nienhuis]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51847>

                 Summary: Variable Editor should be able to show struct
internals
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: philipnienhuis
            Submitted on: Fri 25 Aug 2017 03:47:05 PM CEST
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Philip Nienhuis
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Structs and arrays of structs can be opened in the Variable editor, fine.
Double clicking on a cell containing a struct in the Variable Editor should
open the struct and show its internals in a new Variable Editor tab.

Attached are a few pics of how Matlab (r2015) shows struct contents, taken
from patch #8656 comment #37.
Relevant text from that comment, copied here for convenience:


a = struct ('b', 'field1')
a.c = [1 2; 3 4]
a.d = {1, 'text'; [10 20], {'TL', 'TR'; 'BL', 'BR'}}


gives the output of struct1.png (attached)
Then,

a(2).b = 'field2'


gives struct2.png
Double-clicking field a(1).d (~cell 1, 3) gives struct3.png

So maybe maybe displaying structs doesn't have to be that difficult and could
be fairly straightforward. 




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