Yes, examples are useful if there are no docs and you should look at them. I got a tiphtmlpanel to work in my project by ripping some example source code. What you can also do is type in the component name followed by a period, then variables and functions will pop up. That's also a useful way to see how a component works.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Henry Vermaak <[email protected]>wrote: > 2009/3/16 YanChengyuan <[email protected]>: > > hey all! > > lazarus is free and useful,and i'm glad with that. > > but where are the manuals? > > there are some here: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/ > > > i do have read some books on Delphi Programming ,but they are for > > newbies,and talked about things like "TEdit","TLabel" only.how come that > i > > know how to use things like "TIPHtmlPanel","THtmlBrowserHelpViewer"and > > things like that without a manual ? the lazarus wiki isn't useful on this > > matter at all! > > i scanned millions of pages from google to know a little about a > > component,and most of the infomation i got was far outdated.why can not > our > > developers write some mannuals while making some components? > > a lot of the times the names of properties and methods are > self-explanatory. otherwise the source is right there in front of you > :) > > also look through the examples. examples/turbopower_ipro/ directory > will give you some ideas. > > henry > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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