On 2/15/2012 05:47, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 15.02.2012 03:48, schrieb waldo kitty:
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.
yes, so i've found out... my project is (now) "{$mode objfpc}{$H+}" whereas
before it was in "turbo pascal mode" when i started it in text mode FPC... i had
to switch to using lazarus because i wanted the HasOption stuff for easier
command line processing which seems to only be available in a TApplication...
this is something else i tentatively plan to write about and ask why HasOption
and related functions are not available for all and a TApplication then uses
them... i made some rather large changes to my project which should be quite
simple and "small" :?
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.
yes, they are documented but i guess that lhelp shows all entries when it cannot
determine which one is specific to the code in question... there were a few
others that showed me 5 or 6 options to choose from to see their definitions...
another thing with that is that i then had to close lhelp and hit F1 again to go
back to the choice dialog to choose another reference to read and see if it was
what i was after...
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).
i do and they, themselves, work but the "latest stable" documentation pointed to
by the default F1 help page -> the wiki takes you to sourceforge where i chose
the before named file to download...
earlier i followed another path from the wiki (i believe dodi pointed me to it)
and come up with a whole different set of documentation archives that appear to
also be for the "latest stable" version :?
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