[Lazarus] Ok I give up!

[appjaws]

On 02/03/13 12:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> On 2-3-2013 13:05, appjaws wrote:
>> Hi,
>> How do you write the contents of a Memo to a file and read back into a
>> Memo?
> Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile
> Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile

I tried the following line but I just get an error message :-
Call.pas(87,17) Error: Illegal qualifier

MemoCallNote.Lines.SaveToFile ('/home/paul/tmpinfo/MyTempFile.txt');

>
>> Another thing how can I find out legal qualifiers i.e. Memo.Clear ,
>> Memo.Text (both illegal). What is legal?
> Type Memo. then press ctrl-space, then identifier completion will show
> you legal qualifiers.

I didn't fine .Lines.SaveToFile?

>
> You can also go to the declaration of the tmemo (using alt-up) and see
> the source code to inspect the properties/methods/functions but as
> you'll see TMemo descends from TCustomMemo, probably inheriting some
> properties etc, and the inheritance tree goes on up.
>
> Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo, press
> F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are available.

I don't think my built in help is working, F1 does nothing.
How do I enable built in help?

Thank you to all who responded
Paul

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