[Lazarus] Where are the manuals?

[Reenen Laurie]

And sometimes ctrl-clicking (left) on the function/procedure gives you
insight into the interface... and then ctrl-up-arrow you can even check the
code implementation...

2009/3/16 matt shaffer <dazappa.matt at gmail.com>

> Yes, examples are useful if there are no docs and you should look at them.
> I got a tiphtmlpanel to work in my project by ripping some example source
> code. What you can also do is type in the component name followed by a
> period, then variables and functions will pop up. That's also a useful way
> to see how a component works.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2009/3/16 YanChengyuan <yanchengyuan at gmail.com>:
>> > hey all!
>> > lazarus is free and useful,and i'm glad with that.
>> > but where are the manuals?
>>
>> there are some here: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/
>>
>> > i do have read some books on Delphi Programming ,but they are for
>> > newbies,and talked about things like "TEdit","TLabel" only.how come that
>> i
>> > know how to use things like "TIPHtmlPanel","THtmlBrowserHelpViewer"and
>> > things like that without a manual ? the lazarus wiki isn't useful on
>> this
>> > matter at all!
>> > i scanned millions of pages from google to know a little about a
>> > component,and most of the infomation i got was far outdated.why can not
>> our
>> > developers write some mannuals while making some components?
>>
>> a lot of the times the names of properties and methods are
>> self-explanatory.  otherwise the source is right there in front of you
>> :)
>>
>> also look through the examples.  examples/turbopower_ipro/ directory
>> will give you some ideas.
>>
>> henry
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