Feature request/suggestion: have an "Always on top" option for console apps.

[440bx]

Hello,

As the title says, it would be very nice for the debugger to give the option to make the console window "Always on top".  That combined with telling Windows where to put the console can make debugging much easier by keeping the console output always visible.

[Martin_fr]

Is there such an option in the Windows API? TProcess does IIRC not have anything of the kind...

[440bx]

Is there such an option in the Windows API? TProcess does IIRC not have anything of the kind...

Yes.

SetWindowPos is tailor made for that feature.   

I attached an example I wrote long ago that flip flops its window from not-topmost to topmost and viceversa as desired.

[Martin_fr]

Ok, I have to see about it.
But to me currently rather low prior. So needs to go onto the issue tracker, if it shouldn't get forgotten.

I have a long list of other stuff I want to do first.
- various SynEdit
- better exception stepping/handling in the debugger
- improved console out (linux)
- faster conditional watches
- various improvements on the debug history window
- Dwarf 4 and 5
- tests with fpc-llvm / tests with gcc (just more test that the Dwarf handling works)
- improved error messages
- debug threaded targets / thread specific breakpoints
- finish the debugger backend API / create a debugger frontend API (for plugins)
- ...

There are probably some other feature requests / issues that I want to squeeze into the above list.

[440bx]

But to me currently rather low prior. So needs to go onto the issue tracker, if it shouldn't get forgotten.

No problem, I understand it's one small thing in a pile of things to do.