[lldb-dev] Call python script on stop?

[jingham at apple.com]

Yes, you definitely want to handle events yourself.  The target stop hooks are fine for printing some variables and threads, etc, but I wouldn't try to update your GUI, etc, from there.

Jim

> On Sep 9, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Greg Clayton <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Sep 9, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Ted Woodward <ted.woodward at codeaurora.org> wrote:
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>> I’m working on a simple python gui proof-of-concept. I’m going to use the Tkinter module to open a Tk window that displays registers. I’d like to have it auto-update when the target stops.
>> 
>> Is there a way to automatically call a python script when a target stops, and to call another (to clean up) when the target is killed?
> 
> Why not just consume the events yourself?
> 
> See the following sample python code:
> 
> svn cat http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lldb/trunk/examples/python/process_events.py
> 
> There is a "target stop-hook" command you could use:
> 
> (lldb) help target stop-hook 
> 
> But I would suggest consuming the events on another thread from python, or just making a polling loop where you want for events for a specified amount of time.
> 
> Greg
> 
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