Documentation for LLDB's GUI

Question

I've been recently been playing around with LLDB's gui feature. (A stackoverflow link about this feature is described here. My current lldb is lldb-320.4.156)

So far, it seems very convenient, especially the ability to view local variables in the current stack frame. But is there any documentation (or tutorial) on how to use the LLDB's GUI mode?

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Aside: I specifically have a few questions:

1. How to show the source code upon going into GUI mode. (Unless I stop at a breakpoint and type gui within LLDB, I can never get source code to show up.)
2. How to rerun a program while in GUI mode. (There is nowhere to type while in GUI mode.)
3. Are there colors in GUI mode? I notice if you type lldb --help in the command line, lldb tells you you could invoke it with a --no-use-colors option. (That being said, I've never seen colors with normal lldb mode...)
4. Is there a way to set breakpoints, prior to running lldb?

Answer 1

The GUI mode in lldb is a feature that Greg Clayton did over a few weeks of nights & weekends -- it's a really cool hack. But it's not completed to product-quality level and there's no documentation short of the command key tips that you can see with its built in help system. The biggest omission is definitely the lack of a console window where you could type arbitrary lldb commands - but adding a console pane like that was where things started to get tricky. :)

Hopefully an interested developer will pick up the gui mode work and add these features. For people who can't use a full IDE, it can be really helpful to have a text mode windowed UI when using a debugger.