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withzombies
27th February 2014, 13:57
Hi All,

I'm new to QT and I'm looking for a little guidance. The project I'm working on is a system memory map visualizer, with the intent of showing all heap allocations/frees/reallocs/etc over time (something similar to this blog post: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2094/monitoring_your_consoles_memory_.php). Collecting the data I want to display is not an issue for me.

What I'd like help with is pointing me in the right direction in terms of libraries and classes that I could use. What I'd like to do is show the memory map with selectable blocks. When the block is selected, I'll display information about that block (size, type, etc). I'd like to be able to add, remove, and modify blocks over time. Additionally, I'd like to individually color them based on a selectable attribute.

So, does QT or any third-party libraries have any specific classes and controls that I should build on to display the memory map as I described above?

Cheers,
Ryan