I have to resurrect an ancient Delphi 7 application, which means I have to use the D7 IDE. Upgrading the project to a more recent version of Delphi unfortunately isn’t an option.
My new D7 installation’s Run menu is missing Attach to Process. Aside from the missing menu item, the debugger works fine (I can debug normal Delphi executables started with Run).
I know D7 supported this feature (it’s in the help file), so does anyone have any idea what I’ve missed?
The installation is Delphi 7 Enterprise (Version 7.0 Build 4.453).
Current Run menuitems:
- Run
- Parameters…
- –
- Step Over
- Trace Into
- Trace to next Source line
- Run to Cursor
- Run Until Return
- Show Execution Point
- Program Pause
- Program Reset
- –
- Evaluate/Modify
- Add Watch
- Add Breakpoint >
aha!
Looks like what happened is my D7 HKCU wasn’t initialised correctly from the HKLM repository; my D7 installation was missing all IDE Packages, Design Time Packages and Experts.
After manually merging values from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Borland\Delphi\7.0toHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\Delphi\7.0, D7 looks much more familiar now.