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Stefan Franke wrote in message <372db452.14178297@news.omnilink.de>...

>How do I change the size of the pywin.debugger control window?

You dont :-(

>I tried to fiddle with the registry settings in
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python Debugger\win32ui module\
> Debugger Dialog Position
>
>but this changes the windows size only - the property sheets retain their
size.

Making the window sizable is easy, even though it isnt - because the
controls dont all move with it, and I cant be bothered writing the code to
make it work. (And annoyed I should have to)

>(5 minutes later I messed the whole thing up, and had to reinstall
Pythonwin..)

Ooops :-) Probably could have just removed the Pythonwin and/or Debugger
registry keys?

>Of course a resizable window would be most cool. Working with the
interavtive
>window is sometimes a pain with its current size.

Definately. However, I want to drop the dialog completely - I want dockable
controls, and use the main interactive window, rather than a new one in the
debugger. Various histe^horical reasons for that.

Pulling me in the other direction is the possibility of using MS debuggers -
gets me out of debuggers all together. The debugger doesnt gain much from
being implemented in Python - you still cant change code as it is executing
(which is what would be _really_ nice :-)

>BTW: I noticed that the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python Debugger keys
>are not removed by installer. I just checked it, and it seems to happen
even if
>they remain unchanged.

Oops. I will fix that.

Thanks,

Mark.

On Wed, 5 May 1999 16:34:40 +1000, "Mark Hammond" <MHammond@skippinet.com.au>
wrote:

>Pulling me in the other direction is the possibility of using MS debuggers -
>gets me out of debuggers all together. The debugger doesnt gain much from
>being implemented in Python - you still cant change code as it is executing
>(which is what would be _really_ nice :-)

Would't that require support on the Python debugging level anyway? Of course,
changing bytecodes from outside with a non-Python-aware debugger is easy, but
how could this be done per line or per function?

Another strange thing with pywin.debugger is that once I interrupt a program
with set_trace() and continue it again with "Go", it gets much slower, even
without breakpoints. Propably some debugging hooks are not removed, which
IMHO should be the case if no breakpoints are set.

Stefan