Debugger not stopping at breakpoints in Delphi 7

... can anyone help?

Thanks!
   Shawn

What settings are you enabling/disabling under:
Project -> Options -> Compiler Tab -> Debugging Box?

For that particular uncomplicated project.

Also note, sometime you need to Build your project "Project -> Build" in order to clear the old DCU's that were set for the debugger to use.

agree - always do build before get real debuging. Make sure that you're in debug mode as jimyX points, and make sure that optimization is disabled too.

Thanks for the replies guys.

Jimy - I've attached screenshots of my Project|Options settings for both the Compiler tab and the Linker tab. Yes, I always use Project | Build.

Sinisa - I usually have Optimization checked, and debug has always worked fine in my other projects. I disabled it for now to try it, but still no difference.

I don't know if this would affect the debugger, but I do have these compiler switches set at the top of my main unit:

  {$F+} { Force FAR calls }
  {$P-} { Turn open parameters OFF }
  {$V-} { Turn OFF strict string parameter checking }


... then further down in the Implementation section, these:

{$R *.DFM}
{ $X+ }

Thanks!
   Shawn
Compiler-settings.JPG
Linker-settings.JPG

none of them is a problem - maybe another switch somewhere else.
Look at this document and see for another hint we miss.

more on switches: Delphi_Compiler_Directives

how about another (newly created) project - can you debug it?

Thanks Sinisa, I'll have a look at that document you mentioned in more detail soon, I've been very busy.

Looked at my project more closely tonight and noticed that in the main unit (3697 lines), debugging of all routines is successful up to line 1737. Then from line 1738 and onwards, debugging does not work anywhere. Isn't that strange?
   Also, right at that Line 1737 "border", a procedure from the non-debuggable side calls a procedure in the debuggable side... debug works when stepping through the procedure in the debuggable side.
   A basic outline:

procedure a;   // debug works in 1st line of procedure
begin
.
.
.
end; // a

procedure b;   // debug works in 1st line of procedure
begin
.
.
.
end; // b

procedure c;   // debug works in 1st line of procedure
begin
.
.
.
end; // c


procedure d;   // debug DOESN'T work in 1st line of procedure
begin
.
<calls procedure c from here, debug in procedure c works!>
.
end; // d


// nothing from this point downward in debuggable


What do you think guys? Maybe there are some hidden control chars or something messing up my unit half-way through or something??

Thanks!
   Shawn

Well, I solved this stumper. Stupidest problem I have ever had, and still don't know why it did this. What I did was cut out and pasted ALL my code from where the 1st procedure stopped working in debug (ie. "procedure d" in my example in my last post), saved that in a notepad file, commented out all declarations and references to any of this code I removed, then re-built. Then I re-introduced a few procedures at a time to my unit and uncommented out their declarations - always inserting them at the top of my unit and not the bottom. I'd test these additions in debug, then add a few more and repeat. Took some time, but finally I got the whole thing working. Very very stupid and unexplainable error! Please note that I didn't change my Project|Options settings in any way.

Thanks to all who tried to help!

Shawn