[fpc-pascal] fpDebug extension for Visual Studio Code

[Martin Frb]

On 20/05/2020 19:54, Martin Frb wrote:
> If you look at using FpDebug directly, then you use TFpValue. 
> (returned by PascalParser, or any Parser you want to add)
> All you need is to encapsulate PascalBuilder into a class.
> And stick the value and the builder into yet another object, holding 
> both of them.
>
> TPascalBuilder would then be a formatter class.
> It would also deliver the structures for fields, elements, children.....
>
> TPascalBuilder  can be configured, for verbosity. (optino to skip all 
> the typenames, it currently includes)
>
> With TPascalBuilder  it can also be passed to whatever code builds 
> stackframes. So formatting for those can be affected. (because the 
> class carries the config)

And then there is/was the idea with: getting data on request.

Creating a list of objects for all the fields of a class, needs to be 
optional.
Well it is, by means of flags passed to Pascalbuilder.

What is missing, is the ability to later upgrade. There are 2 
considerations.
1) re-reading target mem.
There already is a cache for target mem.
If TFpValue and TPascalBuilder are hold by a "watch value class", this 
can control the cache, and keep the memory.
This memory is only the class. Vaules by ref, like strings are not included.

2) adding list of fields, to watch that was text only
This will also rebuild the text. That can be suppressed, if needed....