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m_essaid's avatar
m_essaid
Valued Contributor
10 years ago

Delphi, DBGrids and debug info

Hi, Another problem... We obviously don't compile our products with debug infos on and optimizations off. And we must test our softwares in a real environment, so with this configuration. But I ha...
  • Ryan_Moran's avatar
    Ryan_Moran
    10 years ago

    I didn't like the idea of using debug info either so I use Text Recognition to select things on rows.

    Hope that helps you as well.

TanyaYatskovska's avatar
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)

Hi Mehdi,

 

Is there a reason of why you don’t want to include debug version into your build? 

Perhaps, you like using the StripTDS utility. It extracts the debug information from your tested application and writes it to a separate file. When the file is located next to your .exe file (without the debug info), TestComplete can recognize your app as Open and provides much more methods and properties for test. Please read the “About StripTDS” article: http://smartbear.com/viewarticle/55458/

m_essaid's avatar
m_essaid
Valued Contributor
10 years ago

Hi Tanya,

 

Your solution is very interesting.

I tested it on my computer, and it works fine (giving me access to properties that where invisible).

I'll discuss with the colleague who makes the builds to put a tds file for me near the executable.

 

Thank you

 

mehdi

  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    10 years ago

    Hi Mehdi,

    If your devs prefer using standard tools – RAD Studio has built-in analogs of our StripTDS tool.

     

    • C++Builder 2006+ includes the tdstrp32 utility (<BDS>\<version>\Bin\tdstrp32.exe). But unlike StripTDS it can process only 1 file at a time, so for batch processing you'll need something like this:
      :: .bat file
for /r "C:\MyApp" %%f in (*.exe *.dll) do tdstrp32.exe -s "%%~ff"

       

    • RAD Studio XE2+ provides the Place debug information in separate TDS file option for 32-bit Delphi projects. It's in Project Options > Dephi Compiler > Linking. For details, see TDS Debug File (*.tds).

    • m_essaid's avatar
      m_essaid
      Valued Contributor
      10 years ago

      Hi Helen,

      I saw theses options but our delphi is too old and do not provides them.

      Thank you anyway,

      Mehdi