[Lazarus] installing chm help

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

> waldo kitty schrieb:
>
>> also basic things like 'writeln', 'write', and similar do not give any 
>> help... but then some stuff, like 'integer' popup with a "Help selector" 
>> window as mentioned above and one of the two RTL (ahh! found a RTL[] hit) 
>> options (objpas.pp) talks about "redefinition of integer as 32-bit type" 
>> whereas the other one (systemh.inc) says "a signed 16-bits integer"...
>> 
>> so which one is correct?
>
> IMO "Integer" is a compiler built-in type, and thus it doesn't have a 
> reference to the current declaration. The same for Char and string types :-(
>
> I already mentioned that flaw, and suggested conditional declarations:
> {$IFDEF fpdocsystem}
> type
>  integer = LongInt;
>  cardinal = LongWord;
>  ...
>  char = WideChar;
>  string = UnicodeString;
>  ...
> {$ENDIF}

This is on my todo list.

>
>> why does basic stuff, eg: 'write' and 'writeln' not have any help at all?
>
> Thanks, I didn't realize that yet. It's for the same reason: these are 
> compiler magics, for which FPDoc doesn't find a declaration in the source 
> code, and consequently ignores all such <element>, even if they exist in the 
> XML files. See above for possible workarounds.

This is not correct. It has been documented for 12 years at least.
See my direct answer to the orginal post.

>
>
>> where is the help for items like 'PadRight', 'AddChar', 'PadLeft', 
>> 'AddCharR' and similar??
>
> I just can't find in which units these are declared. The FCL is only 
> documented to a small percentage, perhaps these functions reside in such 
> undocumented units?
>
>
>> remember, "we" are coming at this as a pure newbie with some coding 
>> knowledge, no books, and an extremely simple background in programing... 
>> yes, much of the basic stuff really does need to be specified ;)
>
> Please create an according FPC bug report, if none exists yet, and hope that 
> somebody will update the documentation.

It is documented since years, so no need for a bugreport.

Michael.