[Lazarus] debug hints in lazarus [Re: [fpc-devel] Status and ideas about debug info (stabs, dwarf / dwar3)]

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 23:28 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 13 September 2011 22:18, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> >
> > Funny how experiences can differ.
> 
> I honestly can't think how anybody can say Lazarus debugging is better
> than Delphi (or even Kylix 3 from years ago). But as you said, each
> persons mileage my vary.  :-)
> 
> 
> > better than with Delphi. That's because when you're debugging on Delphi,
> > the IDE is scaled down to the feature-level of Notepad.
> 
> Normal code navigation (Ctrl+Click) in Delphi 7 [only Delphi I
> currently have available] is indeed disabled while debugging, but that
> was substituted for another debug function. Ctrl+Click while in
> debugging mode allows you to quickly view the debug data, data type
> etc., and _allow you to modify_ the value if needed.

Ah, that's probably also why they disabled code-completion during
debugging. Not being able to write code while debugging is a feature!
(Btw: that modify variable function is also available in Lazarus, as
Martin already stated)

Joost.