[DUG] Stange window pops up after conversion

[Jolyon Direnko-Smith]

No answers (yet at least), but some questions that might help get you a
closer to an answer....


What exactly do you mean by a "command window" ?  What does it look like ?
What does it do while running ?  How can you interact with it (if at all) ?

Also, what do you mean by "in debug mode" ?  Does this window appear when
running a "Debug" build when running outside the IDE ?  That is,
compiled/built with the Debug release settings.  Or with a DEBUG
conditional symbol defined ?  Or does the window only appear when running
under the IDE ?  If it appears when running under the IDE, does it appear
only when building the Debug configuration ?

If it is something that appears only when running under the IDE then it is
most likely some IDE window that is being auto-presented in these later
versions of the IDE, perhaps due to some output from the app and this
window not being normally present under your IDE layout configuration.
Could it be the "Event log" window, where OutputDebugString() messages
appear ?

If it appears in Debug builds even when running stand-alone (i.e. not under
the IDE debugger) then it must be some conditional code in the app,
governed by compiler settings/conditional.defines (it could still be this
even if it only appears under the IDE, if the code also includes a runtime
check for the presence of a debugger).


hth

On 8 March 2016 at 21:14, Jeremy Coulter <jscoulter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All. I have been slowly converting a Delphi 2007 app, its a res. size,
> to XE8.
> Lets not get into the "why are you just doing it now" bit :-)
> Anyway. when I run in debug mode, a command window appears. Now because
> this is in debug mode, I am guessing this is prob. some sort of debug
> output window. BUT, I cant see where to turn it off. I have not seen this
> before!
> I thought it might have been a hang-over from the old DPRJ file so i
> created a new one, but it still shows. I am not running any "debug" tools.
>
> Thanks, Jeremy
>
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