[DUG] Debugger - variable values

[Dennis Chuah]

To see the contents of a string list, a quick way (turn on allow function 
calls):

srcTemplateInputLines.Text or
srcTemplateInputLines.CommaText

to see an individual element:

srcTemplateInputLines[0], or srcTemplateInputLines[1], ...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bird" <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>
To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:16 PM
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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