[Lazarus] My two wishes for the Message window of the IDE

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Sergei Gorelkin schrieb:

> There should be no need to test for the IDE. Just write messages to some 
> named IPC channel, and have the IDE (or whatever other "log viewer" 
> application) listen on the other side. IIRC this is how 
> OutputDebugString works, it uses a named pipe for communication.

I just remember a (Delphi) DebugHook variable, that might be useful. 
While a Windows debugger should handle OutputDebugString messages, a 
different handling may be required on other platforms. IIRC FPC uses 
gdb, that interacts somehow with the IDE.

DoDi