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From: francis@daisy.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: THINK Pascal debugger (Re: THINK C Debugger)
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Date: 19 Nov 90 20:38:23 GMT
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In article <4743@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>	One might argue that to view an entire record would tend to obscure
>the one or two fields you're interested in amongst the structure of the
>whole records. How useful is it to be able to see all elements of an 
>HParamBlockRec, when all you're interested in is the ioActCount field?
>In Observe, you can type in "hpb.ioActCount", and there you have it.
>The THINK C approach to viewing structures does have its advantages,
>but so does the THINK Pascal approach.
But, once you've got the record open, you can just find the field you
want & double-click, so that it will be the only thing in the window.

The thing that would really be nice would be if you could go back--
i.e., from a field back to the record.  (Is this possible in 3.0?
I haven't used that yet.)

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