On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
waldo kitty schrieb:
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?
IMO "Integer" is a compiler built-in type, and thus it doesn't have a
reference to the current declaration. The same for Char and string types :-(
I already mentioned that flaw, and suggested conditional declarations:
{$IFDEF fpdocsystem}
type
integer = LongInt;
cardinal = LongWord;
...
char = WideChar;
string = UnicodeString;
...
{$ENDIF}
This is on my todo list.
why does basic stuff, eg: 'write' and 'writeln' not have any help at all?
Thanks, I didn't realize that yet. It's for the same reason: these are
compiler magics, for which FPDoc doesn't find a declaration in the source
code, and consequently ignores all such <element>, even if they exist in the
XML files. See above for possible workarounds.
This is not correct. It has been documented for 12 years at least.
See my direct answer to the orginal post.
where is the help for items like 'PadRight', 'AddChar', 'PadLeft',
'AddCharR' and similar??
I just can't find in which units these are declared. The FCL is only
documented to a small percentage, perhaps these functions reside in such
undocumented units?
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 ;)
Please create an according FPC bug report, if none exists yet, and hope that
somebody will update the documentation.
It is documented since years, so no need for a bugreport.
Michael.
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