More details WIN_OLEAUTO information in debugger

[FWExplorer]

Hi,

I'm working through a minigui project uses

win_oleCreateObject( "Outlook.Application" )

to connect to the installed Outlook app, and filter out certain email messages & subjects, and then search through a spreadsheet & do some other stuff.


In the minigui debugger, the outlook object - and other related objects - show up as just

Class WIN_OLEAUTO object

, and when you click on it, it doesn't display any details about the object. It'll just pop up a message that the

Value cannot be edited.


I coded an equivalent script in VBScript. When I examine the objects in the VBSEdit debugger, it displays all the Methods & Properties, with details about the internal arrays, & so forth.

So -

Is there a better debugger for Harbour, that shows more information

or

Is there a better function than win_oleCreateObject() - either in a Harbour contribution library, or in Fivewin - that shows more details about Ole objects that are being used?

[Rick Lipkin]

Try connecting to outlook like this

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oOutLook  := TOleAuto():New("Outlook.Application")
 

Rick Lipkin

[FWExplorer]

That's definitely an improvement, thanks Rick.

Unfortunately, it still doesn't have the same level of specific details, as other environments. It lists some generic methods in the object, but doesn't display some of the subobjects, like folders.


So e.g. the VBScript statements

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Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set objNamespace = objOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set colFolders = objNamespace.Folders
 

return objNamespace object with methods like GetDefaultFolder(), and GetAddressEntryFromID(),

along with a Folders object, containing Methods like

Add(), GetFirst(), GetLast(), and a count property.


In contrast, the Harbour objects in the debugger (class TOLEAUTO) contain generic class methods like

callmethod
get
getactivobject
getproperty
__enumskip,

and many others.

Anyway, thanks for the help. It's possible I'll just have to use both environments, while building & debugging.

Try connecting to outlook like this

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oOutLook  := TOleAuto():New("Outlook.Application")
 

Rick Lipkin

[Antonio Linares]

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[FWExplorer]

Thanks, Antonio.

Btw, which is a good GUI debugger for Harbour? The default console debugger is ok but sometimes inconvenient, especially when you have 2 monitors. If you try to move the debugger to the larger non-default monitor, all of the lines get skewed & unreadable.

I'm using a third party Harbour development tool & debugger (I won't mention the name here), for individual snippets with bugs. But is there a decent gui debugger for Harbour?

Does FiveEdit have Single-stepping capabilities? I tried using it, but it keeps complaining about missing FLVs when it loads, even though all of the bundled FLVs are in the same directory as the FiveEdit executable.


Regards,

http://forums.fivetechsupport.com/viewtopic.php?p=144614#p144614

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[Antonio Linares]

You can use Microsoft vscode + Harbour debugger extension from Antonino Perricone

[cnavarro]

Thanks, Antonio.

Does FiveEdit have Single-stepping capabilities? I tried using it, but it keeps complaining about missing FLVs when it loads, even though all of the bundled FLVs are in the same directory as the FiveEdit executable.

Regards,

Excuse me, what are FLVs?
If you want to learn how to install and use FivEdit, log in to slack and one of my registered partners and I will surely be happy to help you install it quickly.
This is link to slack of FivEdit:
https://join.slack.com/t/fivedit/shared ... Lfk3IQxVBA

[FWExplorer]

Thanks, but I was only interested in FiveTech, to see if it has internal debugging capabilities.

The errors are regarding FIVs, as in fivedit17.fiv. The 'i' looked like an 'l' with the font I have.

Anyway, I think I see what the problem is. FivEdit expects to be in the C:\FivEdit folder. I have it elsewhere, so it's complaining, e.g.

File definition .fiv : C:\FIVEDIT\borland73.fiv not found.


Anyway, I''ll just continue using the Third Party debugger, for individual modules with errors.


Regards,

Thanks, Antonio.

Does FiveEdit have Single-stepping capabilities? I tried using it, but it keeps complaining about missing FLVs when it loads, even though all of the bundled FLVs are in the same directory as the FiveEdit executable.

Regards,

Excuse me, what are FLVs?
If you want to learn how to install and use FivEdit, log in to slack and one of my registered partners and I will surely be happy to help you install it quickly.
This is link to slack of FivEdit:
https://join.slack.com/t/fivedit/shared ... Lfk3IQxVBA

[Antonio Linares]

FWH has its own debugger, you only have to build using /b, in example:

buildh tutor01 /b

It works with FWH only, because it uses FWH components

[FWExplorer]

Perfect, I'll take a look, thanks.

FWH has its own debugger, you only have to build using /b, in example:

buildh tutor01 /b

It works with FWH only, because it uses FWH components

[cnavarro]

Fivedit can use the Fivewin standard debugger, selecting the /b option when compiling or simply adding at the beginning of their prg that they want to apply debug the #pragma /b+.





It also has the possibility of applying the visual FWLOG that I implemented in Fivewin many versions ago.









In any case, use the tool with which you feel most comfortable, but your problem with FivEdit is that you have not done the setup of the application and the environment properly. If you need help do not hesitate to contact me. I am interested in knowing what your problem is in order to improve FivEdit if it is an application bug

[FWExplorer]

Ok, thanks Antonio.