[Lazarus] Readig dbg files

[Bogusław Brandys]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Bernd wrote:

> 2010/7/20 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
>
>>> 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.