Auto stop before running?
lazarus / 9-Editor

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Trenatos · 2018-02-22 22:42

I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to make Lazarus stop any
running process and re-launch rather than having to press the stop
button or keyboard shortcut.

Right now: Press run. Make change. Press stop. Press run.

Wanted: Press run. Make change. Press run.

Does anyone know of a setting or way to make this happen?

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Martin_fr · 2018-02-22 23:06

There is no such setting.

If a person makes changes to the source while debugging, it is not
necessary always the case that the person wants to restart the
process.

I have often had that, when it takes a lot of steps to navigate the
app to a problematic bit of code. Then when I made one change (could
be a comment to an unrelated issue), I still want to continue, and see
how the rest works, before I restart.

But what you can do is record an editor macro. ctrl-F2, then F9
Assign it to a new key. You can't use F9, because it will always stop,
even if nothing was edited. You still may need F9 to run to the next
breakpoint.
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Editor_Macros

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Trenatos · 2018-02-22 23:34

I don't want it to stop when a change is made, just so that when I hit
Run, if it's already running it should stop the process and then run
it.

Right now I've mapped start to Command + r and stop to Command + Shift
+ R.

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Martin_fr · 2018-02-23 00:21

Well you can map both to just one key. See macros.

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Trenatos · 2018-02-23 14:13

I'll take a look at that, thanks Martin