Feature: Container to dereference N elements of a pointer (treating as an array)

[malleoz]

This is really niche use-case, but it's one I run into very often!

In Mario Kart Wii, each course has a certain number of "objects" and an array of those objects. Thus, this array varies in length on a course-by-course basis. One of my frequent use-cases nowadays is to try to capture information from the base class that all of these objects share. Since this array is variable length, I usually have to add a new watch for every object that I want to monitor. It would be a quality-of-life improvement if it were possible to do the following:

• New Container type called an Array
• When adding a watch, you can specify if it's a pointer. Add support to also specify if we are pointing to an array
• Specify the number of elements in the array
• The watchlist could then show this container, allow the user to expand, and we can see each element in the array

As an example, let's say I have the following struct:

struct Vector3f {
    float x;
    float y;
    float z;
};

Let's say there is an array arr of length n containing Vector3f structs at the pointer chain 0x809C18F8 -> 0x20 -> 0x0 to represent the position of n players. Right now, if I add this as a watch, then it will only access arr[0], but I want to show arr[0] ... arr[n]. I could add a watch whose type is Struct -> Vector3f, check the This is a pointer box, maybe check another box that says This is an array, and specify a length of n. The number of players in a race can vary (and in my original use-case the number of objects can vary), so the ability to specify this n by reading from another address would be really beneficial.

This idea isn't fully thought out, so please feel free to share any thoughts! Even ignoring the dynamic n reading at the end, I think array pointer support could be really helpful.