[DUG] Debugger - variable values

[Myles Penlington]

Yes it can display them. Sometimes you need to do a hard cast or a "as"
cast - I quite often use the Evaluate/modify window or watches. The code
that drives these two does not appear to be quite the same (or perhaps
timing delays). Sometimes one works but not the other.

The call stack window in D2006/D2007 is very useful - you can see all
the locals etc.

Basically when debugging I always have frames turned on, optimisations
off - this way you should be able to get at everything.

Myles.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 07:16
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: [DUG] Debugger - variable values

There is something I wanted to know about the debugger.....I love the
debugger being able to examine the values of variables in code.  I have
also
got used to that it just won't show the values of some.   Loop pointers
often won't get shown, particularly as you say after the loop is
finished.
Some others as well, I assume because of optimisation, or sometimes
simply
because it is time to reboot the PC or restart the IDE.

The other type I had got used to never seeing the value of was a member
of a
stringlist, eg

    TmWorkLine1:=srcTemplateInputLines.Strings[TemplatePtr];

The debugger would just show srcTemplateInputLines | () as the value.
However one day, and it has only happened once, it did show the value of
the
string.  I got a surprise!

So.....is the debugger supposed to be able to show the actual string
values
in a stringlist or not?

John


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