This version uses Eina Debug as basis for all its communication with the
application.
All the UI and the core have been rewritten.
It supports the features of the old version of Clouseau (screenshot,
snapshot, highlight) although snapshot format is not the same, and
therefore, old snapshots won't work.
The extensions part has been redesigned.
Clouseau can connect to a local or remote application, as long as a
tunnel forwarding the port 6666 is established for the remote
connection.
When the user wants to save the data (snapshot), Clouseau requests from
every running extension the data that is "exported".
All the data are then encapsulated into one single file.
The first idea was to use EET to store the extensions blobs as basic var
arrays. But it was taking so much time that is has been chosen that the
data itself is appended in the file after the EET blob. This one only
contains the app name/pid and the number of bytes of the blob, per
extension.
Additionnally, the objects introspection extension has been modified to
behave as the first Clouseau, i.e taking all the objects information in
one shot and using it during the interaction with the user.
The Save/Load button is now a part of the main toolbar.
It has been removed when the extentions feature has been introduced.
Now, when -f is used in the command line, a list of extensions is
displayed to request the user to choose the extension that needs to
handle this file.
The objects introspection, that has always been as a core part, is now
an extension, and can be not used.
The directories structure allows other extensions to be developed inside
the Clouseau tree, even if they can be developed outside.
Other extensions will be added and the extensions feature will be
adapted to fit all their requirements.
It doesn't save the screenshots yet. Should be done soon.
During save, the UI is frozen until the last packet is received.
The snapshot file contains info about the application, opcodes that will
be needed during loading and the buffers received from the application
describing the objects and their information.
It was useless, ugly and not functional.
Now you can choose the connection type by opening the connections menu
in the main window.
In this way, you can easily choose the remote profile or move to another
connection type.
Daniel Zaoui