Watch List Hint
lazarus / 12-Debugger

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staratel20 · 2024-02-10 18:12

Hi Team

Is it possible to see the same object hint in the Watch list, that I
see during runtime in Editor. If it option cannot be enabled it would
be a good idea to implement it

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Martin_fr · 2024-02-10 18:26

It's an interesting idea. Please make it a feature request on the
issue tracker.

Obviously it wont be exactly the same. The source editor hint,
includes codetool info (such as declaration and extract from the
docs), that won't be included.

But the textual content from the debugger should be available, and
possible (including the difference in formatting).

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Martin_fr · 2024-02-10 18:45

In the mean time, are you aware of the "Detail pane"?
https://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Watch_list#Detail_pane

Hit the "magnifier" tool-button, and on the right that of the watches
window will be a panel, showing the current/selected watch in more
detail.

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staratel20 · 2024-02-12 12:20

1) If I understand correctly - you mean this tracker
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/issues

2) Yep, but the problem is that the array elements are arranged
vertically and take up all the space needed to view other values, - so
it is inconvenient to click every time to collapse/expand the array
trying to aim squared '+' ))

BTW I was looking for an extension for multiple WatchLists. It would
be great if it possible to place variables in vertically-oriented
w-list and arrays into a horizontally-oriented watchlist. But I think
it's much more difficult to implement

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Martin_fr · 2024-02-12 13:07

1) Yes, that tracker

2) No, not the [ + ]. See the image.
Whatever watch you have selected will be shown in the panel on the
right.

3)
Multiple watches Window. Yea, probably not.

You can always have
- one value in the "evaluate modify" window
- one value in the "detail pane" (the panel on the right, in the
attached image)
- one value in the "debug inspector"
- and if it is a local var, you also have the "locals" window.

Eventually there may be an API to register your own additions to the
debugger... But that is still far far away.

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Martin_fr · 2024-02-12 13:14

And, if you use Lazarus 3.0 and FpDebug, then you can watch
Code: Text  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i
MyArray[10..15]
So if your array is really big, you can get whatever slice you need.

The index can be other variable: MyArray[i-2..i+2]

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Martin_fr · 2024-02-12 13:17

Quotetake up all the space needed to view other values,In case it
helps, you can re-order the list using drag and drop

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staratel20 · 2024-02-12 21:44

>>2) No, not the [ + ]. See the image.
My bad! Now I got it. Looks interesting and may be useful

>>MyArray[10..15]
Absolutely nice future! Currently on 2.2.6 but will update soon!

Thank you for so detailed answer!