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newspammed:
hi all that will answer me. I am new in the programming with lazarus. Where I can get a help files with option to seek exact commands that will show examples for how to use the command. Thanks in regards.

glober:

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Don't know if there is such an animal. Unfortunately Lazarus Help is not the greatest, it needs work. This list will give you a good idea of whats available in Lazarus: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/lcl_doc/allident.html , also here: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/ . For Free Pascal info you can go to: http://astro.ia.uz.zgora.pl/olaf/fpc-docs/fcl.pdf . When you are in the Lazarus IDE you can also press F1 when you have your cursor over a word you want to look up. For most functions you can also use Delphi documentation.

Hope that helps

matthijs:
As Lazarus is a "community" project, creating the "Help" also needs help. Have a look at this page and this one to see what is done, how it can be done and how you can help. Feel free to participate and share your work with the community.

A lot of information you can get by looking at the sources. Using <ctrl> <mouseclick> on a function / procedure / class will bring you to the place in the sources where it is declared. For a few examples look at the Lazarus Documentation and follow the links to the available explanations. Some of these articles come with samples.

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