toString

[Michelle Long]

On Monday, 31 December 2018 at 15:39:05 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
>
> On 31/12/2018 11:13, Michelle Long wrote:
>> Display variables in the watch shows the variables in a flat 
>> list. Can we just get an override for toString or some other 
>> method to change what is displayed?
>> 
>> Surely this can be accomplished?
>> 
>> Even if it means creating an external DLL that Visual D can 
>> read and choose the right function and use it to take the 
>> object and return a string and simply display that string 
>> instead of whatever Visual D is generating internally?
>> 
>> struct S
>> {
>>    int x;
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> Somewhere
>> 
>>    auto S_toString(S s)
>>    {
>>       return "S: "~s.x;
>>    }
>> 
>> Should be very simple to do. Visual D just uses that function.
>> 
>> 
>
> What you can do now when using the VS debugger with the mago 
> extension (and not mago selected as debug engine):
>

Where do I get the mago extension? https://github.com/rainers/mago

Or is it build in to Visual D and there is another setting?