[Lazarus] tooltip debugger shows incorrect data

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 15:15 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Op 2010-10-13 14:43, Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf:
> > 
> > Why do you say "it sucks" ? 
> 
> Simply for a lack of a stronger word. I was holding back on my frustrations.
> 
> 
> > It works, kind of. It depends on your expectations.
> 
> My expectations are rather low at the moment. Just show me the f**ken value
> of the variable!
> 
> "works, kind of" is so over exaggerated! I DOESN'T WORK AT ALL. My
> "tooltips debugging" was just a simple example... and not to mention that
> it at least showed more information that the damn Watches debug window! See
> the attached screenshot. The "Watches" window is even more useless than the
> tooltips debugging, so I opted for the best one out of the broken bunch.

Ah, now I see what you're problem is. You're trying to access
indexed-strings. I've spend quite some time fixing that. It works now if
you use Dwarf-3, fpc 2.5.1 and Fedora 13. 

So if you really can't do without, just switch to Fedora and you're
done. ;)

Joost.