Problem with Pointer to UDT

[Pat Bullman]

Hello All,

I was just responding to PB's support people, when I figured out what the problem is.

When you highlight a variable like @gDummyPtr.Value1, right click the mouse and select "Watch @DummpPtr.Value1", the prefix @ is not copied to the “Watch Window” and consequently the correct value is not “watched”. Adding the @ enables a correct reading.

I probably didn’t notice this at first because I ran into the problem very late last night.

Once again, thank you for your help, even though the main problem was between my ears.


Pat

[Michael Mattias]

>the main problem was between my ears.

???

> "Watch @DummpPtr.Value1", the prefix @ is not copied ...

Don't know about you, but were I to select this option, I would expect the IDE to correctly copy whatever it needs to copy to accomplish this.

[Chris Holbrook]

I would expect the IDE to correctly copy whatever it needs to copy to accomplish this.

I agree, though you will still need a way of evaluating the pointer+offset address as well as the variable pointed to in the watch window.

What would also be really handy is to be able to see a block of memory "at" the pointer address.

[Michael Mattias]

What would also be really handy is to be able to see a block of memory "at" the pointer address

???

FUNCTION Foo (address, size) AS STRING
LOCAL S AS STRING, T AS STRING, Z AS LONG
  S = PEEK$ (address, size) 
  
  FOR Z = 1 TO LEN (S) 
   T = T &  HEX$(ASC(S,Z,1),2) 
  NEXT
  FUNCTION = T 

END FUNCTION
....
.....
     LOCAL W AS STRING

     W = Foo(Address, len)   '[b]Watch 'W'[/b]

???

[Chris Holbrook]

FUNCTION Foo (address, size) AS STRING

In the debugger's Watch window!