[DUG] I broke the D2006 debugger

[Todd Martin]

Hi John

Go to
 project->options->compiler

uncheck the "debugging" options. The blue dots should disappear....and vice 
versa.

Todd.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bird" <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>
To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:04 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG] I broke the D2006 debugger


>I think I have solved it - there were some compiler options in the source
> file of the main unit (but this was the unit that was executing 
> breakpoints
> ok so I don't think that was it....I deleted these - they were from D5
> anyway) and deleted all the files like .res and .dcu and rebuilt 
> everything
> and rechecked project options and now it works.....yay I have a debugger
> back.
>
> So can someone kindly tell me what the blue dots signify apart from being
> very pretty?  I can accept there is a sort of logic to "needing blue dots
> before the red dots will work" - but what does this mean behind the 
> scenes?
>
> Thanks for the hint about the dots - it did show there was something 
> screwy
> with this project as all the other projects were working OK when I checked
> them.
>
> John
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Bird [mailto:johnkbird at paradise.net.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2006 12:47 p.m.
> To: 'Jeremy North'; 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> Subject: RE: [DUG] I broke the D2006 debugger
>
>
> Well that does add something to the puzzle - as in the whole project only
> one unit shows the blue dots in the left, and that is the only one where 
> the
> debugger stops with breakpoints.  However I can alter and recompile the
> offending unit(s) and the resulting program does reflect the changes, with
> or without blue dots.
>
> I tried opening other projects and rebuilding and they all show the blue
> dots.   So lets rephrase the question - what is the difference between the
> appearance of the dcu and other altered features in the program (which are
> working) and the blue dots and the debugger (which are not).
>
> Yes I have searched for other instances of the dcu files and have found
> none.
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy North [mailto:jeremy.north at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2006 11:16 a.m.
> To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] I broke the D2006 debugger
>
>
> Do you have Software Assurance John?
>
> This really isn't a good QC report because you haven't provided steps to
> reproduce.
>
> Does the unit when breakpoints are not triggered get the Blue dots in it. 
> Do
> the blue dots appear in the correct locations. Add about 10 lines of
> whitespace in a function and see if the blue dots are still lined up
> correctly with the code in your unit.
>
> You might have an old DCU on your path that the compiler is finding before
> your modified unit. Have you done a system search for the unit name to 
> make
> sure it isn't elsewhere on the system.
>
> On 2/14/06, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>> I submitted this to BDN Quality Central Report #:  24858
>>
>> http://qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=24858
>> (I presume this is the best place to go to)
>>
>> Any other suggestions welcome please - I am stuck!!
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> Any Borland Techos reading this?
>>
>> I need help as I have lost already about 4 days trying to debug a
>> complex routine.  There are no compile errors, it runs fine until it
>> hits a range error somewhere (don't know where yet as I can't get any
>> breakpoints to stop it in this unit).
>>
>> Hey the debugger does not work anymore!  Can someone suggest where
>> further up the line I can submit this problem to? I am out for a
>> while, later in the day I will resort to the D5 debugger.
>>
>>
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