Ability to resolve structure global structure members on mouse-hover

[bryghtlabs-richard]

Feature Request

When I hover the mouse over a structure's member, it shows me the type(which is nice), but often I actually want to see the value of the structure's member.

Example structure definition in header:

typedef struct {
  uint8_t AIFrom;
  uint8_t AITo;
}moveVar;

Example usage site:

extern moveVar moveStatus;

void func(){
  clearChessLEDs();
  convertSendLEDData();
  sequenceAILights(moveStatus.AIFrom, moveStatus.AITo);
}

Hovering on moveStatus.AIFrom shows AIFrom's type:

Note: I'm quite new at using VSCode , it's possible I've made a mistake setting it up. I am using ms-vscode.cpptools version 1.23.6 with an ESP32-S3 hardware target over JTAG. They thought this was an issue in this module.

[sean-mcmanus]

@bryghtlabs-richard What do you mean by "value of the structure's member"? It sounds like you're referring to the value in the debugger. Normally, when debugging it's supposed to show the value. I've seen some random bug or something where it sometimes doesn't show the value, but eventually if I keep trying to hover and/or use the watch window I can usually see its value. i.e. you may be hitting a bug where the debugger doesn't have the value so it's falling back to showing the language service info.

[bryghtlabs-richard]

@sean-mcmanus , I mean I'd like to see the value of moveStatus.AIFrom, a number in the range of a uint8_t.

When I hover the mouse over plain stack variables, they do show the variable's value. But moveStatus.AIFrom doesn't.

[sean-mcmanus]

@bryghtlabs-richard It seems like possibly a debugger bug with "unnamed" C struct members.