[Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?

Howard Page-Clark hdpc at talktalk.net
Mon Apr 30 10:50:30 CEST 2012


On 30/4/12 9:23, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:03:41 +0200 (CEST)
> Michael Van Canneyt<michael at freepascal.org>  wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The lazarus code editor shows tooltip hints about identifiers; It gets those
>> from the sources or even fpdoc.
>>
>> Is there any reason why the object inspector would not be able to offer the same hints ?
>> Properties and events are also just identifiers after all.
>
> Right click on OI: enable Show hints

There is also the (optional) OI information box which displays limited 
documentation. However, it is often very limited.
e.g.

"TControl.OnClick
Event Handler for mouse click"

which hardly aids a programmer looking for more information, and in fact 
is hardly worth displaying at all.
Would it be difficult to add parameter and parameter type information, 
and function return type such as codetools offers in the Editor?

Howard





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