[Lazarus] Tooltip shows value of some but not all const items....

[Bo Berglund]

I am using Lazarus 2.0.8/fpc3.0.4 on RaspberryPi4.

When working on Windows -> Linux porting of an old Delphi app I have
noted that the Lazarus IDE behaves differently when I hover the mouse
over a const item in the source editor. The consts are declared in the
top of the implementation section to be global in the file.

1) The const is declared like this:
  MKFILE= #$E5;
When I hover the mouse I see:
"const MKFILE = #$E5"

2) The const is declared like this:
  REMMEASON: char = #$D5;
When I hover the mouse I see:
"const REMMEASON: char"

So in one case I see the value of the const and in the other case only
the type...

Is there some Lazarus setting that will enable always showing the
value?

Another question:
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Is there a difference between the two types of declarations?
I think that the # specifier of the value also declares the const as a
char in the first place, or not?

If there is no difference to the compiler I could remove the char type
item for these consts and then be able when navigating the code to see
what the const value actually is, right?

I really do not know why there is a difference there, the code was
worked on from 2004 to 2012 in Delphi 7/2007, but we need to get away
from Windows now so I am porting it to FPC/Lazarus...


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden