[Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg at opensoft.homeip.net
Thu Aug 20 11:01:49 CEST 2009


Vincent Snijders wrote:
> 
> Please read carefully. Otherwise you are reading things that are not
> written and you get a skewed world view.
> 
> From that thread: "Lazarus is not a tool for any user - it is a tool
> only for programmers."

OK, I did some searching. You are correct about the quoted message, and
this one.

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> Yes, why is it an option in the first place? No other application 
> asks the user for the Font Size or Font Height. If the one can be 
> calculated from the other, then just give us the ONE normal option -
> Font Size. Anything else is just confusing to the user.

User, yes. programmer: no.
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Maybe I misunderstood or misinterpreted the people that wrote those 
messages. If I did, I humbly apologise.


> quote. Therefore you draw the wrong conclusion (I think, because I
> don't exactly understand this English): "anything should go"

I thought I explained what I meant by "anything should go". Please 
reread my reply to that...

http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2009-August/044685.html

If it is still unclear, I'll try and explain in more detail.


Regards,
   - Graeme -

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