Wow! Very cool! An IDE Expert that displays values of watch expressions when debugging, right inside your code editor, and it's live! The idea should be inspired by Light Table, the implementation should have been benefited from the excellent the detours hooking library by Mahdi Safsafi PS, this Japanese blog was posted to this group long time ago, and today Nicholas mentioned it, so I went to there again, and found this cool thing :)

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Wow! Very cool! An IDE Expert that displays values of watch expressions when debugging, right inside your code editor, and it's live! The idea should be inspired by Light Table, the implementation should have been benefited from the excellent the detours hooking library by Mahdi Safsafi PS, this Japanese blog was posted to this group long time ago, and today Nicholas mentioned it, so I went to there again, and found this cool thing :)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tales/20161015/1476466482

Comments

  1. Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)October 20, 2016 at 9:56 PM

    I must have missed something. To me out looked like the Watch window. What exactly is different?

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  2. Nicholas RingOctober 20, 2016 at 10:18 PM

    Castalia, before it was incorporated in to the IDE, had a similar feature.

    Thomas Mueller​ The variables' values are on the source line, so they are easier to see (I guess)

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  3. Pavel NovákOctober 20, 2016 at 10:27 PM

    /sub

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  4. Alexandre MachadoOctober 20, 2016 at 10:42 PM

    Installed in Berlin and Seattle... working great so far! :-)

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  5. Alexander BenikowskiOctober 20, 2016 at 11:25 PM

    Sexy!

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  6. Alexander BenikowskiOctober 20, 2016 at 11:38 PM

    WAIT something i noticed! If this works in starter... awesome o.o

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  7. Alexander BenikowskiOctober 20, 2016 at 11:43 PM

    DO i have to enable it? Otherwhise it does not work in starter :(

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  8. Primož GabrijelčičOctober 20, 2016 at 11:51 PM

    I just installed the .bpl (in Professional) and it worked (while debugging).

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  9. Alexandre MachadoOctober 21, 2016 at 12:04 AM

    Alexander Benikowski I didn't do anything other
    than installing it. When it hits a breakpoint all parameters and local vars magically appear

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  10. Edwin YipOctober 21, 2016 at 12:17 AM

    Thomas Mueller , check http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table-a-new-ide-concept/. You might find some ideas for GExperts ;)

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  11. Edwin YipOctober 21, 2016 at 12:17 AM

    Thomas Mueller , and this: https://vimeo.com/36579366

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  12. shlomo abuisakOctober 21, 2016 at 12:42 AM

    On starter it dose not work.

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  13. Динар ШарифуллинOctober 21, 2016 at 1:44 AM

    It only works if the project is running on a platform under debugging 32-bit. To debug 64-bit applications functionality does not work. Menu item "Add platform" in DLight.dproj is disabled.

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  14. Mahdi SafsafiOctober 21, 2016 at 1:47 AM

    WOW looks amazing ! Is it open source ?

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  15. Primož GabrijelčičOctober 21, 2016 at 1:48 AM

    From readme.md: "This plugin is released under the MIT License, see LICENSE file."

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  16. Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)October 21, 2016 at 1:48 AM

    OK, I compiled and installed it. Looks cool. Unfortunately since I don't develop much with Delphi 10.1, I can't really test how useful it really is.
    (The animation on the webpage is misleading. It does not direct the attention to the important part.)

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  17. Jeroen Wiert PluimersOctober 21, 2016 at 1:58 AM

    CodeRush - in the pre-Galileo era, before heading to the .NET world - had plugins for similar functionality. I still miss it.

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  18. Dany MarmurOctober 21, 2016 at 2:06 AM

    Brilliant. It does exactly what the webkit debugger has been doing for a while now. But i get "duplicates not allowed" when stepping. Did anyone successfully parse how / where to send a report? Cannot get Google Translate to work there :(

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  19. Baoquan ZuoOctober 21, 2016 at 2:41 AM

    Pretty cool.

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  20. Jeroen Wiert PluimersOctober 21, 2016 at 6:53 AM

    Dany Marmur maybe through his GitHub account? https://github.com/lynatan
    github.com - Lyna

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  21. Friedrich WestermannOctober 21, 2016 at 7:31 AM

    Edwin Yip These is awesome

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  22. Friedrich WestermannOctober 21, 2016 at 8:43 AM

    The Project is now on GitHub https://github.com/lynatan/DLight
    github.com - lynatan/DLight

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  23. shlomo abuisakOctober 21, 2016 at 8:46 AM

    I found the problem on Starter.
    FWatchWindow := TForm(Application.FindComponent('WatchWindow'));
    if FWatchWindow = nil then Exit;
    FWatchWindow is nil.

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  24. Jeroen Wiert PluimersOctober 21, 2016 at 8:51 AM

    Friedrich Westermann Cool. I wonder why it requires Seattle as minimum version.

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  25. Uwe SchusterOctober 21, 2016 at 10:03 AM

    Jeroen Wiert Pluimers Painting into the editor leverages INTAEditViewNotifier that exists since 10 Seattle due to the rework of the suboptimal integration of Castalia into XE8.

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  26. Joseph MitzenOctober 21, 2016 at 12:30 PM

    Light Table did it first, but JetBrains has had this in at least some of their IDEs for almost two years now.

    https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.2/inline-debugging.html
    jetbrains.com - IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 Help :: Inline Debugging

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  27. Tom FieldOctober 22, 2016 at 5:55 AM

    Reminds me of the second example from this interesting talk by Bret Victor: https://vimeo.com/36579366.

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  28. shlomo abuisakOctober 22, 2016 at 7:09 AM

    Ver 3 works on starter

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  29. Eden WUOctober 23, 2016 at 5:28 PM

    /sub

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  30. Georgi StefanovOctober 26, 2016 at 6:33 AM

    /sub

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