[DUG] I broke the D2006 debugger

[Leigh Wanstead]

Hi John,

I did not receive your previous email. But base on what you said in your
post, I must say that is just basic knowledge about how to debug in
Delphi. I think Delphi do a proper job as what instructed to do. Nothing
wrong about Delphi. The only thing I can suggest is to read a Delphi
starter book which I recalled that I suggested you long time ago in DUG
mailing list IIRC.

Regards
Leigh
http://www.salenz.com

> I wasn't sure how to close it (did it via browser), but I added a
> comment I
> regard it as closed - except I suggested that the IDE should either not
> allow breakpoints to be entered if debug compile is turned off, or warn
> if
> they are there.
> 
> Otherwise people like me who don't know will be completely mystified,
> even
> if its obvious to others.  Remember the days before you knew really
> really
> obvious things - someone had to teach you them.  I still remember my
> first
> day on a computer keyboard when someone told me to press Control/Z, and
> I
> said "What is this Control thing?" now it seems obvious but it sure as
> hell
> wasn't then.  And the IDE in this case didn't help with any hint....
> 
> In the end I solved it by taking the hint about blue dots missing and
> googling "delphi blue dots missing when compile" and it gave lots of
> references about search paths (which wasn't the problem) and stray
> dcu's
> (which also wasn't) and one reference among dozens about compiler
> option -D
> and +D (which sort of was).
> 
> John