Are there any ready-made functions for listing objects?

[Dan Campbell]

Hi,

Happy with PBCC for the most part.  But one of the limitations of the debugger, is that objects show up as not displayed.

Are there any ready-made functions that will display the names and values of object properties, and the names of methods, to the console, that can be used during a debugging session?

[Theo Gottwald]

You can only write this yourself as i see it.

[Dan Campbell]

Thanks, Theo.  Taking a break from this, and focusing on other parts of the app.

Will decide later whether to use a different language, with an ide that has built-in support for the display of their objects.

[Frederick J. Harris]

The COM Apis have various functions for returning all of the information concerning COM objects, for example, the members of the ITypeInfo interface.  That's how Type Library Browsers work.  I will say its rather involved, and integrating that into a debugger likely wouldn't be trivial.   

[Dan Campbell]

The COM Apis have various functions for returning all of the information concerning COM objects, for example, the members of the ITypeInfo interface.  That's how Type Library Browsers work.  I will say its rather involved, and integrating that into a debugger likely wouldn't be trivial.

I'm sure it's a complicated effort, but it's the kind of thing I expect in a debugger & ide.  From what I understand, many of these IDEs get their information from the typelib tlb file, at least for the external com libraries.

The other non-basic IDEs I've worked with, probably have non-COM native objects, internal to the language.  So it might be easier for them to display the structure & values of objects, at will.

But - I don't care.  Will continue to work with PB in the meantime, but will be looking elsewhere, while hopeful that better debugging support is implemented in the future.