Am 15.02.2012 03:48, schrieb waldo kitty:
On 2/14/2012 14:40, Sven Barth wrote:
On 14.02.2012 19:33, waldo kitty wrote:
so why isn't this working??? what is the key step that has been left out
of the instructions??
What about trying not a keyword? What about things like "FileExists",
"TProcess", "TForm" (if the correct units are included of course).
ok, so i opened my satsort project and placed the cursor on "Classes" in
the uses statement and hit F1... /that/ worked! this project doesn't
have any GUI stuffs and is not "process" oriented (AFAIK) so i didn't
try those keywords (as i called them in my previous post)...
the lhelp window is opening /two/ indicators on my w2k status bar
(why??) and it is indicating "lcl[]" which indicates that it has found
the lcl.chm file... but there is also a fcl.chm and rtl.chm in place...
i am also getting a box, labeled "Help selector" to select one of
several (two in this case) identical entries... why is this??
also basic things like 'writeln', 'write', and similar do not give any
help... but then some stuff, like 'integer' popup with a "Help selector"
window as mentioned above and one of the two RTL (ahh! found a RTL[]
hit) options (objpas.pp) talks about "redefinition of integer as 32-bit
type" whereas the other one (systemh.inc) says "a signed 16-bits
integer"...
so which one is correct?
Both are correct. The default size of Integer in FPC is 2 Bytes (16
Bit). Only if you use mode Delphi or ObjFPC the size is 4 Bytes (32 Bit)
and there it is indeed introduced by the ObjPas unit which is
automatically included by the compiler in these modes.
why are both being shown to me?
why does basic stuff, eg: 'write' and 'writeln' not have any help at all?
I don't know. At least the two ARE documented.
where is the help for items like 'PadRight', 'AddChar', 'PadLeft',
'AddCharR' and similar??
If you have the unit StrUtils included then it should work (it should be
rtl.chm).
remember, "we" are coming at this as a pure newbie with some coding
knowledge, no books, and an extremely simple background in programing...
yes, much of the basic stuff really does need to be specified ;)
Regards,
Sven
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