Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:54:53PM +0300, ik wrote: The difference between VB and native languages, is that VB is a script language with internal interpreter. Afaik since VB5 it is compiled. VB4 is the last interpreted one. And VB4 is _old_.

Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
In VB6 I could set breakpoints and run the app. If the variable contained the wrong value or I noticed a coding problem I could change it while at the breakpoint and just continue execution... Wouldn't that classify as interpreted? (Note: I haven't touched VB in over 6 years!) Regards, -

Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:32:09AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: In VB6 I could set breakpoints and run the app. If the variable contained the wrong value or I noticed a coding problem I could change it while at the breakpoint and just continue execution... Wouldn't that classify as

Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:01:25AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: No. Au contraire... In VB 5 and later running your project does not compile it: it runs the interpreter. Only when you explicitly make the executable, the code is actually compiled; and even then, you have the option

Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:32:09AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: In VB6 I could set breakpoints and run the app. If the variable contained the wrong value or I noticed a coding problem I could change it while at the breakpoint and just

Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:01:25AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: No. Au contraire... In VB 5 and later running your project does not compile it: it runs the interpreter. Only when you explicitly make the executable, the code is actually

Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-17 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: In VB6 I could set breakpoints and run the app. If the variable contained the wrong value or I noticed a coding problem I could change it while at the breakpoint and just continue execution... Wouldn't that classify as interpreted? (Note: I haven't touched VB in over

Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-16 Thread Albert Zeyer
That's only partly true. I think it cames with VB4 (32 Bit Version), VB5 or even only with VB6, but there you could choose to compile a real native Win32-EXE (which completly depends on the runtime DLL). That is not the same (but the speed increases aren't much higher in the native version

[lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-15 Thread Christian Ulrich
Some days ago, i have seen on the screen of one of our visual basic programmers that Visual basic has something like an debug console. Where you can write something with an special function. I think this could be an good idea for lazarus, that evry line from debugln() is written at an seperate

Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
ik wrote: The difference between VB and native languages, is that VB is a script language with internal interpreter. The executable file that is generated by VB actually contain byte code that is translated and executed on run time. That means that you can do such things inside your code. I

AW: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-15 Thread Christian Ulrich
The difference between VB and native languages, is that VB is a script language with internal interpreter. The executable file that is generated by VB actually contain byte code that is translated and executed on run time. That means that you can do such things inside your code. I do not know if

AW: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-15 Thread Christian Ulrich
Just an idea to keep in mind, not anything thats on the thingstodoinnext5minutes list is ... Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Vincent Snijders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. August 2006 22:03 An: lazarus@miraclec.com Betreff: Re: [lazarus] Debug idea ik

Re: [lazarus] Debug idea

2006-08-15 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Christian Ulrich escreveu: Some days ago, i have seen on the screen of one of our visual basic programmers that Visual basic has something like an debug console. Where you can write something with an special function. I think this could be an good idea for lazarus, that evry line from debugln()