Martin wrote:
On 03/09/2011 21:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Couple of questions if I may: what's the on/off button for and is it
intentional that the order of the assembler buttons is reversed when
compared with the main IDE?
1) you may :)
2) on/off
A lot of debug windows have this. the button allows to disable the
window. It allows faster debugging without the need to close the windows.
e.g. If you temporarilly do not need the asm, watches, or whatever, then
you do not want the debugger spend time to get the info for you. You
could close the window, or switch it off.
It also allows you to freeze the current content, even if you stop
debugging. So you still have the content for reference.
Since it was added, some of the benefits are no longer relevant, due to
other changes. For example, the debugger now stops fetching if, if you
press F8 (or otherwhise run/step the app). So the speed gain is rather
minimal. (you only have to wait for one gdb command to be finished (for
asm that still can take a bit); before this you had to wait for all open
windows to finish)
Thanks. I didn't see any obvious change in the button state (or text
colour etc.) so it wasn't clear what was going on.
For preserving data (not asm though), there is a history window now,
that allows to view the watches, locals, stack, threads, of previous
breaks.
I noticed it had been added fairly recently, but I'd not explored since
it only showed up on a SPARC Solaris system which I'd had to update. In
general I'm trying to be fairly conservative about my FPC and Lazarus
versions- I've got enough problems as it is :-)
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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