[Lazarus] Displaying property values while debugging

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 18:54:37 CET 2011


On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:46:55 +0000, Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:

>On 23/01/2011 20:29, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> While debugging my test database application I tried to do as I
>> ussually do in Delphi to see property values, namely to hover the
>> mouse over a keyword when the execution has stopped in a breakpoint.
>>
>> In Delphi I usually see the value of the property, but here in lazarus
>> I only see a pop-up message about an exception...
>>
>> in my case I put the cursor in the Text word of the sentence below:
>>
>>    query.SQL.Text := 'EXEC SelectDongleData @@SerialNo=2485';
>>
>> The breakpoint has been reached on the next line: query.Open;
>>
>> When I now hover the mouse over 'Text' then after a while a yellow box
>> appears with the following content:
>http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GDB_Debugger_Tips#Properties
>
>properties that have a getter, need to call a function to get the value. 
>The debugger currently can't do this.

Too bad, but since is a limitation I won't look further.
Thanks!


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden





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