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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: Is it really this bad, or is it just me
- Message-ID: <Bs9DFF.GIM@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:54:50 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.155112.7877@microsoft.com> <Bs7KA6.2DC@apollo.hp.com> <1992Jul30.173531.14978@progress.com>
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- In article <1992Jul30.173531.14978@progress.com> briggs@progress.COM (Scott Briggs) writes:
- >nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Jul29.155112.7877@microsoft.com> gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Jul28.134522.11108@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> turnbull@ces.cwru.edu (John Turnbull) writes:
- >>>>In article <1992Jul28.090409.1@cortex> mboucher@cortex.prospect.com (Mike Boucher) writes:
- >>>>>
- >
- >[stuff deleted]
- >
- >> OK, so what CAN you debug with a Windows debugger? For instance,
- >> it is clear that I can't set a breakpoint in the message handler
- >> for the scrolling messages. But my WM_VSCROLL handler eventually
- >
- >Your probably not going to like this suggestion but; get yourself
- >a secondary monochrome monitor and video card (total cost <$100).
- >and then use CVW /2. When you hit a break point your focus
- >shifts to the secondary monitor so you don't get spurious (sp?)
- >messages sent to your WNDProc.
-
- I *DO* use dual monitor debugging. The problem isn't with the displays,
- it's with the mouse event handling. And I've received plenty of
- email from CodeView users who confirm that the problem I'm describing
- occurs just as frequently with the Microsoft environment.
-
- So you're saying that with your setup you can have a Windows program
- that has scroll bars (using the Windows API) with a WndProc that has
- a handler for WM_VSCROLL with a case statement for SB_LINEDOWN and
- if you set a breakpoint in the SB_LINEDOWN code and click on the
- "down" button of the scrollbar (at which point control is transferred
- to the debugger to handle the breakpoint) and only get one message
- for that click?
-
- I've got the Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 product installed on my machine,
- although I have never used it, because I was already using the
- Borland product and I didn't want to climb the learning curve of
- another environment, especially when more people seemed to prefer
- the Borland environment (And besides I have no more room for the
- manuals so I keep them in a box under my desk!). But if the
- Microsoft debugging environment is more problem-free than the
- Borland one I might consider switching -- I don't want to use
- both regularly all this mental gear-changing: Microsoft | Borland
- at home, Apollo Domain | HP HP-UX at work, gives me headaches!
-
- BTW, does the Microsoft environment have an equivalent to Winsight?
-
-
- ---peter
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