[Lazarus] Where are the manuals?

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

YanChengyuan schrieb:

> lazarus is free and useful,and i'm glad with that.
> but where are the manuals?
> i do have read some books on Delphi Programming ,but they are for 
> newbies,and talked about things like "TEdit","TLabel" only.how come that 
> i know how to use things like "TIPHtmlPanel","THtmlBrowserHelpViewer"and 
> things like that without a manual ? the lazarus wiki isn't useful on 
> this matter at all!

There should exist sample applications, used in testing the 
implementation, with some notes about the intended use of every 
sophisticated component.

> i scanned millions of pages from google to know a little about a 
> component,and most of the infomation i got was far outdated.why can not 
> our developers write some mannuals while making some components?

Unfortunately most Lazarus developers prefer to add new features, 
instead of writing documentation :-(


It's fun to make kids, but no fun to have them afterwards ;-]

DoDi