[patch] add KDE_SLAVE_DEBUG_POPUP support for KIO slave debugging (windows only)

[Ralf Habacker]

Jarosław Staniek schrieb:
> Ralf Habacker said the following, On 2008-02-06 17:18:
>   
>> Jarosław Staniek schrieb:
>>     
>>> For review:
>>>
>>> A workaround for OSes where DebugBreak() does not work in 
>>> administrative mode (actually Vista with msvc 2k5) - display a native 
>>> message box so developer can attach the debugger to the KIO slave 
>>> process and click OK.
>>>
>>> The patch allows to use
>>>  set KDE_SLAVE_DEBUG_POPUP=protocol
>>> instead of
>>>  set KDE_SLAVE_DEBUG_WAIT=protocol
>>>
>>> to get the popup for any version of msvc and any windows version.
>>> As no DebugBreak() is the executed in "KDE_SLAVE_DEBUG_POPUP" mode, 
>>> depending on the actual needs, user can just click OK without 
>>> attaching, and continue using the KIO slave.
>>>
>>> You can find more info on the sourece of the problem in "Note (Vista 
>>> only)" section of [1].
>>>
>>> [1] 
>>> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Debugging_on_MS_Windows#Debugging_kioslaves 
>>>
>>>       
>> Jaroslav, would it be possible to detect the affected operation system 
>> version automatically and to display the popup without introducing a new 
>> environment variable ?
>>     
>
> Yes, that was my original thought as well. But after a while, I have found 
> more value in the current proposal - you can decide whether you want to 
> execute debugger or not for a particular instance of ioslave program, even on 
> XP. So I'd like to keep additional variable.
>
>   
I understand

Ralf