[Lazarus] Code completion problems with Graph units

[Sven Barth]

On 10.09.2014 07:52, Sven Barth wrote:
> On 10.09.2014 00:23, Howard Page-Clark wrote:
>> On 09/09/2014 21:17, Sven Barth wrote:
>>> Hello together!
>>>
>>> I'm currently working on a project that uses the good old Graph units
>>> (or PtcGraph to be more precise) and I have the problem that code
>>> completion is erratic if (Ptc)Graph is in the uses-clause, because the
>>> IDE can not find the graphh.inc include file which is at the top of all
>>> Graph units. This include file is located in $fpc/packages/graph/src/inc
>>> whereas the full Graph units are located in other directories of
>>> $fpc/packages/graph/src/.
>>> I've also tried adding the path of the include directory to the "Other
>>> source files" or the "Include directories" path. The IDE then either
>>> complains that it still can not find the file or it complains that it
>>> could not find the end of the file with the cursor still getting
>>> positioned at the $include directive.
>>>
>>> Any ideas I could try? (besides commenting out the include directive :P)
>>
>> I think you can use the Codetools Defines Editor (4th item in the Tools
>> menu) to add the include path.
>> However, I have never figured out exactly how to do that for FPC and
>> Lazarus sources which the Codetools treats specially (even though there
>> is a wiki page that ought to help:
>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Codetools_Defines_Editor).
>
> Hmm... the interesting thing is that there *is* already an entry
> especially for Graph (Free Pascal Sources => Free Pascal Source
> Directory => Packages => extra => graph). But it does not seem to work
> :/ Maybe that "extra" node is too much there?

Nope... moving the "graph" node up does not change anything *sigh*

Regards,
Sven