[Lazarus] rewriting of LConvEncoding

Guy Fink merlin352 at globe.lu
Sat Oct 16 20:32:04 CEST 2010


On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 15:08 +0200, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> 
> > It's just amazing that everybody known that the debugger support in
> > Lazarus and FPC absolutely sucks! Even the crappy Kylix 3 has better
> > debugger support.
> 
> I think you are wrong. I recently had to debug an old project with Delphi 7.
> Argh! No possibility to explore local varables of calling procedures, no
> code navigation while debugging, a complicated way of defining watches and
> changing variables, unpractical setup of breakpoint properties...

Even the latest Delphi versions don't support code-navigation while
debugging. Even the code-completion doesn't work. Delphi's functionality
drops to the level of MS Notepad when it's in debug-mode.

Joost.





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