"just basic knowledge about how to debug in Delphi" you might tell me where this is documented in the debugger help, and where this basic knowledge comes from - how did you get it for instance? (someone told you, hopefully kindly). Remember most operations in a GUI environment are based on many implicit assumptions on how things on the screen behave. For someone not educated in an assumption they are not obvious...
I remember reading of Steve Balmer watching through a two way mirror at one of the first useability labs of MS Word for windows - users were instructed to drag the mouse down to scroll down the page, and some users, new to a mouse, were seen to run the mouse down the leg of the desk. He literally tore his hair out at how much he realised users had to be taought and said the profound lesson is that you cannot assume users understand anything that is obvious to you....they will not and they will break it! "He who asks a question is a fool for a moment, he who doesn't ask a question is a fool forever" -Albert Einstein John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leigh Wanstead Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2006 7:59 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [DUG] I broke the D2006 debugger Hi John, I did not receive your previous email. But base on what you said in your post, I must say that is just basic knowledge about how to debug in Delphi. I think Delphi do a proper job as what instructed to do. Nothing wrong about Delphi. The only thing I can suggest is to read a Delphi starter book which I recalled that I suggested you long time ago in DUG mailing list IIRC. Regards Leigh http://www.salenz.com > I wasn't sure how to close it (did it via browser), but I added a > comment I regard it as closed - except I suggested that the IDE should > either not allow breakpoints to be entered if debug compile is turned > off, or warn if > they are there. > > Otherwise people like me who don't know will be completely mystified, > even if its obvious to others. Remember the days before you knew > really really > obvious things - someone had to teach you them. I still remember my > first > day on a computer keyboard when someone told me to press Control/Z, and > I > said "What is this Control thing?" now it seems obvious but it sure as > hell > wasn't then. And the IDE in this case didn't help with any hint.... > > In the end I solved it by taking the hint about blue dots missing and > googling "delphi blue dots missing when compile" and it gave lots of > references about search paths (which wasn't the problem) and stray > dcu's (which also wasn't) and one reference among dozens about > compiler option -D > and +D (which sort of was). > > John _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
