Hi in the Run Parameters dialog, it appears as though $macros such as $TargetFile() or the current project directory, etc., don't get expanded.... Is this by design? Would be nice if they were expanded just as in the External Tools. If no one has interest in it now but would find it useful I could work on a patch. Or if by design it is intended to not be that way for some reason let me know.

Once again I am trying to launch my app using cmd /k , so that a command line stays open , and can't find a way to do this with the run parameters window unless I manually type in project1.exe instead of $TargetFile()

Hi in the Run Parameters dialog, it appears as though $macros such as $TargetFile() or the current project directory, etc., don't get expanded....

Please create a bug report.

Mattias

Not sure if it was intended as design.

The designer of Lazarus didn't necessarily need this feature...

I will create one but it could be as designed

Lars wrote

The designer of Lazarus didn't necessarily need this feature...

Mattias is the designer of Lazarus. :)

Juha

I thought there were more than one designer and it went through several phases of different people coming and going, hence the name Lazarus which was revived from the dead, and instead of just one Jesus like person being revived it was multiple people which makes it Lazaruses rather than Lazarus

:-) Quote:

"So, three individuals (Cliff Baeseman, Shane Miller, and Michael A. Hess) began Lazarus in February 1999. Each of these three had tried to get involved with the Megido project before it dissolved. They started their own project, Lazarus, out of frustration with their earlier Megido experience.

The next member of the team was Marc Weustink. He got involved with the project in August 1999. Marc was looking for a Linux Delphi (at that time Borland had not developed Kylix). He was also interested in Linux in general, and joined the Lazarus project for that reason. At the time Marc joined, Lazarus was not much more than an empty toolbar and some hardcoded GTK menu items. The editor was still being discussed. Marc is still a core contributor, with the debugger interface as his pet subproject.

A year after Marc joined Mattias Gaertner got involved (September 2000). With Mattias as a member of the team the project made a significant move forward. Mattias ported synedit, and coded large parts of the codetools and the designer. With these new additions Lazarus began to look more like it does today. Three years later, Mattias added the package system and has continued to add further IDE features and enhancements. "

Quote from:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/History

Yes.
You asked about "The designer of Lazarus" and "this feature". I added the IDE macros in general and to the run parameters in particular, so Juha took the chance to answer in a similar manner. Context sensitive.

Mattias