How do you debug the captured mouse game with a gdb GUI?

[RolandDH]

Does any tool support that? On linux? Or does it mean one has to go back to command line gdb?

Edit: Hrmmpf: When I came back from posting this to qtcreator, it had it's mouse activated. So it seems only a matter of massaging it a little.

[scrawl]

https://wiki.openmw.org/index.php?title ... g#Debugger

[Chris]

It can be pretty annoying to have to play without mouse grabbing, especially if the bug doesn't occur quickly after starting. Luckily there is an alternative for GDB-based debuggers. GDB allows running python script functions when it breaks/stops the program, and can also call functions in the app while it's stopped. This is a script that has helped me:

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#!/usr/bin/python
# release mouse when breaking into debugger for SDL2 programs
# put this next to the executable you wanna debug and name it
# <YourExecutableName>-gdb.py
# Make sure that it's in a subdir of an allowed GDB auto-loading safe-path,
# see https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Auto_002dloading-safe-path.html
# e.g. by executing in a terminal:
# $ echo "add-auto-load-safe-path /path/to/project" >> ~/.gdbinit

def release_mouse (event):
        gdb.write("GDB/SDL2: Releasing mouse\n")
        gdb.execute("call SDL_SetRelativeMouseMode(0)")

        # TODO: if you use SDL_SetWindowGrab(), you may have to write
        #       function with no arguments to call it with your SDL_Window*
        #       handle and call this as well, like:
        #gdb.execute("call DEBUG_UngrabMouse()")

        # TODO: the following doesn't seem to work, maybe it does for you.
        #       either way, it needs xdotool installed.
        #gdb.execute("exec xdotool key XF86Ungrab")

gdb.events.stop.connect(release_mouse)
gdb.write("GDB/SDL2: installed release mouse for SDL2\n")

Note that the script can be in any sub-directory of the specified safe path, so if you have all your projects in a common directory (e.g. $HOME/projects/openmw, $HOME/projects/somethingelse, $HOME/projects/anotherthing) you can just specify $HOME/projects as the safe path and GDB will allow the script to work for them all.

[scrawl]

Nifty. If that script is confirmed working for others, maybe it could go on the Wiki as well?