[lazarus] Lazarus Object Documentation

Jeffrey A. Wormsley daworm at cdc.net
Sat May 20 02:22:09 EDT 2000


On 05/19/2000 at 4:07 PM Michael A. Hess wrote:

>My 2 cents.

And mine as well...

>Placing the comments in an
>external file will let you be as verbose as you wish since it will only
>be used by the documentation tool. If we generate the documentation from
>the source code then we know that the documentation is as close to the
>current code base as possible. 

As a possible IDE extension (granted, way in the future) it would be nice
if there were a way to select a declaration and see the external document
file.  Perhaps a hover (as in hints) or a context menu item, or even a
seperate window.  I realize this isn't easy, but it would be very useful.

Jeff.







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