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

Flávio Etrusco flavio.etrusco at gmail.com
Thu Feb 6 12:47:44 CET 2014


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Flávio Etrusco <flavio.etrusco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Am 05.02.2014 23:24, schrieb Flávio Etrusco:
>>>
>>> FWIW if you get an "identifier not found" error while compiling, the
>>> context menu in the Message View has a "Search identifier" command. It
>>> opens the Code Browser (which also could be much cleaner) and searches
>>> the class. Then you can open the context menu for the unit found and
>>> select "Use unit FOO in unit BAR".
>>
>> And is it by intension that one needs to select a node before the correct
>> context menu is shown? (win32) E.g. doing a right click on the "type
>> TObjectList = class(TList)" node without having selected any node shows the
>> menu containing solely the various expand/collapse menu items (and the
>> export entry).
>
> Yeah, we definitely should enable eoRightClickSelect there.

(And should it be the default for the component, if not for compatibility :-/ )
As long as we are at it, may I ask to reset the progress bar after the
search is completed? :) Thanks.

Best regards,
Flávio




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