[Lazarus] Debugger output style

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Martin wrote:
> On 24/06/2010 13:25, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Is there an easy way of telling the debugger to display a variable as 
>> hex for ease of bit-twiddling? I can see that watchpoints have an 
>> associated style but it's greyed out here.
>>
> 
> There is a way, but more like a workaround. Doesn't work for locals, put 
> works in Watches window:
> 
> Pointer(MyVar)
> 
> Btw, if you need spaces in an expression
>   MyVar and 255
> you actually need to quote it by hand:
>   "MyVar and 255"
> 
> Include the quotes in the watches win, and it will work.

Thanks both. I ended up hacking it with a temporary conversion in the 
code which allowed me to see what I'd done wrong :-)

Getting the missing watchpoint style coded sounds like a tricky job 
since it would presumably need additions to whatever makes the internal 
structure persistent, as well as the UI for setting it up and handling 
the display.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]