Expression evaluator to see a particular field of a struct?

[davecotter]

can i enter an expression, as one can in Xcode, to view a particular field of a struct as the "value" of said struct?
eg: if i have this lovely struct:

and i just want "this" to show "this->i_description.i_uni.i_nameP", so that i do NOT have to drill down to it every time, just see the value (in red) right next to "this"?

eg: in Xcode i can enter this expression

{$VAR.i_description.i_uni.i_nameP}:s

and then see "Main Thread Queue" as expected. How do we do this in Qt?

[davecotter]

does anyone have any ideas here?

[Chris Kawa]

It's not specific to Qt. It's specific to the debugger. You didn't say which debugger you're using and on which platform.
With CDB on Windows at least you simply write this->i_description.i_uni.i_nameP just like in code with no special syntax.

[davecotter]

i need a solution for both mac and windows (mac: xcode, windows: Visual Studio 2017)

note i don't want to type that into the expressions window, or have to look in a different panel. i want to just see it in place next to "this" every time i run the debugger (as you can do with Xcode)

[Chris Kawa]

Sorry, I never had a mac in my hands so "like in XCode" doesn't tell me much. Do you have something like debugging helpers in mind?