[Lazarus] Getting help for a type if its unit is not in uses

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 5 12:32:55 CET 2014


Am 05.02.2014 12:25, schrieb Mattias Gaertner:
> On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:03:32 +0100
> Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Now the problem is that this won't work in Lazarus which will return a
>> error message "Hilfeschlüsselwort "FPCKeyword_TObjectList" nciht[sic!]
>> gefunden." ("Help keyword "FPCKeyword_TObjectList" not found") [plus
>> another, in my opinion needless, error message afterwards with (in my
>> case)
> The above message is now omitted. The hint is now in the debug log.
Great. :)

[snip]
> When an identifier was not found it now starts the code browser, so 
> TObjectList of contnrs is now shown.
>> Also could the error message
>> be improved a bit? E.g. kick out that second error and use "TObjectList"
>> instead of "FPCKeyword_TObjectList" in the error message?
> You now get the codebrowser. There you can search for packages, units
> and identifiers.
Great! Let's see how good that will work. :) Any chance this could still 
be in 1.2?

Regards,
Sven




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