On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Bernd wrote:
2010/7/20 Mattias Gaertner <[email protected]>:
So please enlighten me. What are the benefits of such a debug monitor? Perhaps
I am missing something.
It would just be nice to have this all somehow unified and more
*comfortably* usable in Lazarus. On windows I almost exclusively use
OutputDebugString() for everything that is (or runs inside) a GUI app
and has no stdout available (basically everything in windows). Only
the Lazarus/GDB combination will not easily allow this and this is
because GDB originates from the *ix world and there no such API exists
and working from the command line and with log files is a hundred
times easier with all the available tools and much more the norm than
in windows.
I suggest you look at the debugserver tool and the dbugintf units in FPC.
SendDebug('Some message');
SendDebugFmt('variable A : %s',[A]);
Program flow is easily monitored with
SendMethodEnter('Entering MyMethod');
SendmethodExit('Exiting mymethod');
It nicely indents/de-indents the messages in the output.
It works as you describe it, does not interfere with the debugger
at all and is cross-platform to boot. I use it since 12 years,
also in Delphi, where it is part of gexperts.
I couldn't develop without it.
Michael.
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