[Lazarus] disable the debugger capturing the OutputDebugString() messages

[Reimar Grabowski]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:15:54 +0200
Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

> I do miss (something like) this badly !.
> 
> With MSEIDE you can see the standard output of a program ( writeln() ) 
> in a window, With Lazarus this is not available.
That is not the same and actually a really useful feature I miss myself.
 
> I did not know about "OutputDebugString", it would be very appropriate 
> to have it as well on Windows as on Linux.
I actually fail to see the benefit over stdout (other than windows problems with stdout), but I am not against it. It is no problem to replace my writeln() with outputDbgStr().
If it will be implemented I would like to add a feature request:

outputDbgStr(tag, message: String);

It's very useful to include a tag to indicate which unit/class/method/etc created the message. Got used to it while coding for android devices as there is such system in place as stdout is only reachable on the device itself.

R.
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