Horacio Jamilis wrote: > Vincent Snijders escribió: >> Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: >> >>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Martin Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Correct. MSEide can not access property values. Fortunately prepending the >>>> property name with 'F' usual works because of the naming convention. >>>> >>> That was a handy trick. I managed to debug my program in Lazarus IDE >>> yesterday, using that method. Thanks. >>> >>> >>>> Calling a property getter function is dangerous because the function often >>>> does more than simply return the value. >>>> >>> I do not think that matters much. Properties are a fundamental >>> language feature in Object Pascal and are used often, so the debugger >>> must support it. Plus the code you are debugging doesn't care what's >>> happing in the Getter method, it is only concerned with the result >>> returned. So if the result return is not what you expected in that >>> code location, then debug the Getter method or step into the Getter >>> method. This worked for Delphi and Kylix from the start. >>> >> Well, it can become tricky. Suppose you try to debug something in the >> form creating and initial showing. If you inspect the MyForm.Handle, the >> handle gets created. Now, the handle is created at another point in the >> initialization sequence than at normal run time. >> > This is a risk, the debugger user shoud be aware of, but viewing and > setting property values must work in the debugger, as it does in Delphi.
If you can give me a nice way to undo the case vincent described, I'll happily implement that. Note that Delphi doesn't handle this either. So evaluating properties can modify the state of the debugee. > I am with Graeme in this! > I also believe that the Object Pascal Internal Debugger is an important > thing missing in this project, but I think I don´t have the skills to > contribute on this :-( Thats one thing, but what is more important is a fully generated debug info. Without this info, a debugger can do nothing. At this moment properties cannot be evaluated using the stabs info. period. When using dwarf it can be possible, however we might need a extention to the dwarf spec to get complete support. (FYI, stabs and dwarf are the formats fpc uses to write debug info) Marc _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
