[Lazarus] Ok I give up!

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Sat Mar 2 13:54:40 CET 2013


Juha Manninen schrieb:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, appjaws <lazarus at appjaws.plus.com> wrote:
>> Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear ,
>> Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal?
> 
> See Memo.Lines.
> It has Clear and Text and everything that TStrings supports.
> 
> How to find it? With a new component I usually look at its properties
> in Object Inspector, and use the code completion feature of the IDE to
> see available methods.
> Usually their names are intuitive and self documenting. For example
> Memo.Lines is pretty clear.

What is *not* clear, to the OP and many other users, that the required 
functionality is *not* found directly in TMemo, but resides in a 
property (.Lines) of it. In such cases code completion is of little help :-(

DoDi





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