Marcel Taeumel uploaded a new version of FFI-Tools to project FFI:
http://source.squeak.org/FFI/FFI-Tools-mt.28.mcz

==================== Summary ====================

Name: FFI-Tools-mt.28
Author: mt
Time: 6 May 2021, 7:57:49.985981 pm
UUID: baed18b3-7684-634c-b285-691d551be27c
Ancestors: FFI-Tools-mt.27

Make the label for handles accessed via byte-array read-writer more readable by summarizing skipped bytes to a number instead of dots after a certain threshold, which is 16 bytes at the moment.

=============== Diff against FFI-Tools-mt.27 ===============

Item was changed:
  ----- Method: ExternalObjectHandleWrapper>>objectString (in category 'accessing') -----
  objectString
  
+ 	| label handle skipLimit |
- 	| label handle |
  	label := super objectString.
  	handle := self getHandle.
+ 	skipLimit := 16.
  
  	handle isExternalAddress ifTrue: [^ label].
  	handle isInternalMemory ifTrue: [
  		^ (thisContext objectClass: handle) == ByteArrayReadWriter
  			ifFalse: [label]
+ 			ifTrue: [ | begin end tokens |
+ 				label :=(thisContext object: handle instVarAt: 3) "byteArray" printString.
- 			ifTrue: [ | begin end |
- 				label :=(thisContext object: handle instVarAt: 3) printString.
  				label := label copyFrom: 3 to: (label size - 1).
+ 				begin := (thisContext object: handle instVarAt: 1) "byteOffset" + 1.
+ 				end := begin - 1 + (thisContext object: handle instVarAt: 2) "byteSize".
- 				begin := (thisContext object: handle instVarAt: 1) + 1.
- 				end := begin + (thisContext object: handle instVarAt: 2) - 1.
  				String streamContents: [:stream |
  					stream nextPutAll: '#[ '.
+ 					tokens := label findTokens: ' ' "#[0 0 0 0 0]".
+ 					begin > skipLimit ifTrue: [
+ 						stream nextPutAll: '. . ', (begin - 1) asString, ' bytes . . '.
+ 						tokens := tokens allButFirst: begin - 1.
+ 						end := end - begin + 1. begin := 1].
+ 					(1 to: end) do: [:index | | token |
+ 						token := tokens at: index.
+ 						index >= begin
- 					(label findTokens: ' ' "#[0 0 0 0 0]") withIndexDo: [:token :index |
- 						(index between: begin and: end)
  							ifTrue: [stream nextPutAll: token]
  							ifFalse: ["Skip byte info" stream nextPut: $.].
  						stream space].
+ 					(tokens size - end + 1) > skipLimit ifTrue: [
+ 						stream nextPutAll: '. . ', (tokens size - end) asString, ' bytes . . '.
+ 						tokens := tokens allButLast: tokens size - end.
+ 						end := tokens size].
+ 					(tokens size - end) timesRepeat: [
+ 						"Skip byte info" stream nextPut: $..
+ 						stream space].
  					stream nextPutAll: ']'.
  			]]].
  
  	"Type aliases to atomic types store primitive Smalltalk objects in their handle. Indicate that role of actually being a handle for the FFI plugin with a small prefix."
  	^ '-> ', label!