RE: Debugging and bitmaps
- Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Aug 16, 2003
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Pete Lomax wrote: > > > It just struck me, after over a year and a half playing with bitmaps > and pixmaps, bitblt and stretchblt, would I be alone in thinking that > actually it would be quite cool if you could look at them when tracing > through the code in the debugger? And maybe all the attributes too, so > you might have some hint why a bitmap is not appearing on a button, > etc. > > Has anybody ever seen a debugger which that sort of thing is possible > on? > > Would this be remotely possible using say Al Getz's display server? > > Pete > Hi Pete, Funny you should mention that, because i was thinking about that at one point also Thing is, i couldnt really justify doing it, because all it would do is draw a bitmap (perhaps scrollable) on the display, which is something some many programs like MS Paint already do. Any ideas how exactly it would be used and what it would help the user to do in debugging? Maybe you mean just to make sure it looks like it should before the program goes any farther (from a hBitmap or id_Bitmap)? Take care for now, Al