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A feature for Lazarus?
Avishai:
I got to play with Visual Studio today just to compare it with Lazarus. I noticed one thing that I thought would be a great feature for Lazarus. When you select an item in the property editor, it displays an explanation at the bottom of the property editor. Since I am not familiar with VS, it was very helpful for me.
Leledumbo:
Already implemented, Options->Environment->Object Inspector->Show information box at the bottom (or something like that, I don't remember the entire line).
Avishai:
As usual you are right :) But it doesn't look like it has been fully implemented yet. No matter what property I select the window shows "Package LCLBase". But I can see that the idea is already in place. It will just take someone to flush it out and fill in the missing pieces. When it's fully functional I think it will be a great help.
Martin_fr:
Maybe you need to scroll, or enlarge it? (Tested with TButton)
But feel free to submit patches, Open the class in the sourceEditor (e.g. units Forms, TFOrm and base classes) then use the fpdoc editor.
The result is in the xml files somewhere in the dcos folder
Avishai:
OK. My bad :-[ It works just fine. I just needed to enlarge it. But maybe others will read the post and find something new, like I did.
I do have a question though. Since "Package LCLBase" is (almost) always the first line, why is it there at all? Also the "Description" line seems unnecessary. In my opinion, it ends up taking up too much vertical real estate. Still, it should be very useful for people that aren't already familiar with Lazarus.
The bottom line - It's a good idea and I didn't know it was there.
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