[Lazarus] hints missing new line [Re: codetools tooltip showing method visibility]

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Tue Aug 18 18:58:32 CEST 2009


On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:42:44 +0100
Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:18:25 +0100
> > Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >>
> >> I can't get a screenshoot, because hints disapear on keyboard.
> >>
> >> but if you haver over Synedit. create (in the class declaration), 
> >> several of the ancestor methods are listed in a single paragraph,
> >> just glued behind each other
> >>     
> >
> > At the moment they are collected and added as simple text lines.
> > So each ancestor is separated by a new line character.
> >
> > The hint that you see is an arbitrary control. By default it is a
> > TLabel. So no html possible. That's why it looks glued together. 
> > But I also started a html hint control using the tpipro
> > control.
> >   
> Hm, but there are some new lines, so the ability to show new lines is
> there. There are about 5 or 6 ancestor classes with "Create",  after
> the first is a new line, then all in one single block, and another
> new line in front of the last.
> 
> Looks like maybe the 2 with the newline, have a newline in the actual 
> help text, so it is copied from there?
> The newlines used by codetools: are the LineFeed or just #13?

It was not in the codetools, but in the fpdoc help.
I added a line break.

Mattias




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