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2007-06-19 07:50:02 PM
delphi191
I mean, I rarely ever use the same breakpoint more than once...
Eric
 

I will quite often be using the same breakpoint for a parser
I've writen and go through the breakpoint several thousand
times. Once I have found the cause I will disable it and run at
full speed but I may well want the breakpoint again at a
later date. This is where a disabled breakpoint is useful.
It's also good as it is easier to find a disabled breakpoint
when it is a different colour from the rest of text/enabled
breakpoints.
Pete
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Eric Grange writes:
Actually it is so sad it is funny.
Check out the project options screenshot in attachments (SUBJ:
Misaligned options). I mean serious, what developer hands that over for
peer review. What reviewer doesn't smack the guy/gal on the back of the
head and tell him/her to line it up properly.
Brand new feature and a form designer that has pretty pink lines and
they still can not align things up properly.
It has improved though (alignments), but when new ones like this sneak
through, I wonder if they just do these types of things on purpose to
beef up the QC stats numbers.
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a checkbox) - in the editor, a disabled breakpoint gets painted green. So
making it a keystroke was a sensible thing to do, IMO.
 

Eric Grange writes:
form (mentioned earlier post).
I'm lost without them now ;-)
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Eric Grange writes:
difference between US programs and French programs, GUI-wise. Not every
program by every programmer of course, but enough to feel like a trend.
To a Frenchman it seems just unthinkable to have a 'sloppy' UI, while
on the US side it is more like 'it works, what are you complaining
about?' (fast food ->fast programming ->no time for those small
adjustments?).
Or I have just been lucky with my French programs...
I haven't seen enough German programs to say anything about them, and
Swedish programs I see mostly my own,, so that is for someone else to
judge...
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proceeding in that manner. I usually place my breakpoints were they'll
be hit only once, and I rarely go bug hunting into the same lines of
code twice.
I've stopped placing breakpoints in loops or other multi-occuring code
locations long ago (too annoying to trace through, or enter conditions
to make relevant). Though I guess if you really heavily on breakpoint
conditions, a disable could be useful.
Personnally, I am not afraid of hitting low level disassembly and stack
views, so I have access to parameters/intermediate values the IDE itself
provides no info on. More often than not, a single well-placed
breakpoint (in the code that should be run, or in a "finally" section)
is sufficient to identify the bug in the first run.
Eric
 

since I never use them.
Eric
 

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No need for Codegear to waste resources on it. The new IDE is so much better
that it would be sheer stupidity for CodeGear to abandon it.
The only thing Delphi 7 did better was the help, and that is not an IDE thing
really.
 

Eric
 

Eric Grange writes:
methods, not uses clause.
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You mean that in Delphi 2007 they also navigate between uses clauses? That's
nice, but I'd have hoped that by now it implemented what experts
gave me since D3, ie. the ability to reach both uses clauses from
anywhere in the code with shortcuts (here Ctrl+W 2 & 3).
Eric
 

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the rest - well, a few extra ctrl-key combinations that I probably wouldnt
use do not offset the {*word*99}py help systems, slower IDE interface, and
absolutely rediculous runtime dependencies of D2007. (Not to mention that
D2007 WONT EVEN INSTALL on my main development machine because one of the
installers for one of the dependencies fails.).
 

GrandmasterB writes:
them you end up wondering how you lived without them
If you think they were the *only* enhancements then I suggest you look
at the articles Nick posted on CDN or DN. Whatever the official name
for that site is now days.
rarely use help.
use.
dependancies (except J# runtime) on my PC anyway.
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