Question

I want to display the entire content of a TStringList while debugging the application.
Instead I just get pointers. The Flist is showing only the address.

Answer 1

I use the visualizers now that I have D2010. I used to use a function I called CArray that would return an array of strings. If I added CArray(MyStringList) to the watch window, I would be able to examine the contents of the string list. I used to be employed to write VB6 code and I sort of liked the various ‘C’ functions for converting to a useful type. CArray for stringlists and CArray for ClientDataset fields were mostly useful for debugging.

  function  CArray(List: TStrings): TStrArray; Overload;
  var i,
      iCount: Integer;
  begin
    iCount := List.Count;
    SetLength(Result, iCount);
    for i := 0 to Pred(iCount) do Result[i] := List[i];
  end;