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Title: IDE Window: Event Log
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| 1 | + | ## Navigation | |
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| 3 | + | [[Main menu|Main Menu]] \> [[Main menu|View]] \> Debug Windows \> Event Log | |
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| 5 | + | ## Important | |
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| 7 | + | You must [[Debugger Setup|setup the debugger]] and start the project to debug it. Only then this window will be useful. | |
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| 9 | + | ## Event Log | |
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| 13 | + | The Event Log provides a place into which the debugger will log a record for the occurrence of various events. You can configure the Event Log by using its context menu or the Debugger page of the Tools, Environment Options dialog box. | |
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| 15 | + | The types of events that are logged include process information such as process start, process stop, and module load debugger breakpoints, as well as windows messages sent to the application. | |
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| 17 | + | Application output using the [[OutputDebugString|OutputDebugString()]] function provides a handy means to help you debug Windows applications. The single parameter to OutputDebugString(aString) is a string which will be added to the Event Log. This allows you to keep track of variable values or similar debug information without having to use [[IDE Window: Watch list|Watches]] or displaying intrusive debug dialog boxes. | |
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| 19 | + | [TCustomApplication.Log()](https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/fcl/custapp/tcustomapplication.log.html) also writes its output to the Event Log (if it has been implemented). | |
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| 21 | + | ### Context menu | |
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| 25 | + | **Clear Events**: Clears all the events from the Events Log window. | |
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| 27 | + | **Save Events to File**: Enables you to save the contents of the Event Log to a file. | |
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| 29 | + | **Add Comment**: Enables you to add a comment to the Event Log. | |
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| 31 | + | [[IDE Window: Debugger Options|Event Log Options]]: Options to configure the events which appear in the Event Log. | |
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| 34 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "IDE Window: Event Log", as it stood on 2021-02-02 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |