[Lazarus] Getting help for a type if its unit is not in uses

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Wed Feb 5 21:34:00 CET 2014


On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 21:55:07 +0200
Juha Manninen <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Can we hope to someday get the feature that Lazarus adds the unit where a type/function/whatever is defined automatically to the uses clause when it is used for the first time (just like Eclipse does for Java imports)?
> >
> > Please define "automatically".
> 
> MS Visual Studio has the red error marker and a popup menu that gives

Something has to generate these markers.
The compiler is the most reliable tool for that, but it would fail if a
required unit fails to compile and it should not write to
disk, so it needs temporary output directories.

Mattias




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