Compiling With Debug Agent

Hi Chris,





Yes, the StripTDS utility should help you to make your files smaller. Please note that Delphi 2009 has a similar utility with the same functionality: tdstrp32.exe. You can use this standard utility in case you do not trust our utility.

Also how confident can we be the software will behave in the same way once this info is stripped out.

Please see the How StripTDS Modifies Binary Modules section of the About StripTDS help topic.

Hi David



Many thanks for your reply. Will check out the Delphi utility as well.

Regarding the overhead memory usegae and possible speed degradtion when using Debug Agent, this also concerns us, as when trying to address speed issues in the software, we then are comparing a released version without the Debug Agent overheads to the WIP version which has those overheads, thus making it difficult to see speed improvements or otherwise. It seems somewhat laborious to have to use the StripTDS utility each time, in the development & testing phase,  to be able to make valid comparisions.



At present the main issue with Testcomplete is the menu options, which are impossibly slow when using keyboard simulations. Our menus also drive off ActionLists. Is there no way of accessing the actionlist objects with TestComplete without having to use the Debug Agent?



Regards



Chris

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Hi Chris,





Without using the Debug Agent, TestComplete can see only published native methods and properties. So, there is a workaround: create a helper object that will contain published wrapper methods and properties providing access to the needed information within your application. You can return an instance of this object via a published property of the form object.





Since you are testing the memory consumption and speed performance of your application, could you please tell me the difference between your application's release build and debug build containing the debug information? If you have not tested this yet, do this and share your results with us. I am guessing that you will not face a noticeable difference.

Hi



My developer has created a method under the 'published' section of the main form in the Delphi app. However using Object Browser, this published method is still not visible to TestComplete.  



Under the Delphi Project options for the app, under Compiling, we have Debug information set to True.  



Regards



Chris Kudla

Hi





Just something else, we use 'Build with Runtime Packages' when we compile. It is not feasible for us to change this.





Regards



Chris 

Hi Chris,





You can find the complete list of the Delphi project settings in the Using Debug Info Agent With Delphi 2009 Applications help topic.





Please let me know if you still have problems accessing the native properties of your application after compiling the application as it is described in this topic.