[Lazarus] Which program type to select for cron usage?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Bo Berglund wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:28:55 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> For anything that has a longer lifetime and is likely to change over the years,
>> you should pick 3.
>
> Thanks, I did so and started coding. :)
>
> Now I ran into a problem which I cannot say belongs to the selection
> of type of program or Lazaus itself or somethiong else:
>
> I am building a communications class that will hook into the existing
> Delphi sources.
> I write something like this:
>
> TSSController = class
>  private
>    FComm: TSSConnection; //Defined in Delphi unit
>  public
>    Constructor Create(ConfigFile: string);
>    Destructor  Destroy; override;
> end;
>
> destructor TSSController.Destroy;
> begin
>  FComm. <== cursor right after the period
>  inherited Destroy;
> end;
>
> Where TSSConnection is declared in one of the Delphi files located in
> the same directory as all other sources (the project dir).
>
> When I enter the period after FComm I expected Lazarus to autocomplete
> with the valid identifiers, in this case Free, but nothing happens...
>
> My test project where I checked connectivity to the GPIO did not
> behave like this, but it was a GUI project. What did I do wrong?

Did you add the files to the project in the project inspector dialog? 
That they are in the same directory as the project is not enough.

Michael.