At 9:59 AM -0700 10/1/06, David Graham wrote:
Joe Huber wrote:
Displaying a property is a relatively simple process of grabbing a
value, then formatting it for sidplay.
Even assuming this is a typo, I can't figure out what a sidplay might be.
I'm curious because I find it very tedious to find and display property
values in the debugger, especially in large programs, and if there is an
easier way, I would like to know!
How do you grab a value and format it for the debugger to display.
Hi David
Sorry for the typo. My new high res monitor is sometimes too much for
my old aging low res eye balls. :-)
sidplay should have been display
I was explaining that the debugger itself could display properties,
but that (at least for some RB versions) it would not display values
returned from methods, due to the possibility of side effects from
calling a method.
I wasn't trying to say that the user could format the debugger display.
To do that you could introduce a local string variable and use the
Format function in your app before hitting a break point.
BTW Something that might help is the often unnoticed debugger feature
of opening a separate variable pane. If you Command-click (also
available via right click) on any underlined property in the
debugger, it will open into a separate little inspector dialog that
will stay open and updated as you continue debugging.
Regards,
Joe Huber
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