On 30/4/12 11:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Howard Page-Clark schrieb:
What's the use of such additional information in OI? You can let the OI create the event handler for you, no need to bother with parameters here.
For people who use a stable release all the time, set up according to their established preferences, this is true.
I prefer to work mainly with the cutting-edge. And working help for some reason is often the first casualty of a new installation. Since Lazarus does not yet install all help files on all platforms ready-to-run, I often find on upgrading or using a daily snapshot that help and hints have stopped working for me, and require quite a lot of downloads and file copying and setting of help parameters (as URLs, not usual directory locations) before the new help installation is rolling again. Unaccountably this process sometimes goes quickly and smoothly, and at other times takes far too long, and I have to refer to wiki articles and mail list archives to try to solve the problem.
OTOH the OI already lists all published events nicely, without need to look up the sources. So it is quicker for me (if help is not yet working) to drop a component on a form, inspect some information in the OI as needed, and perhaps delete the component again if it is not actually needed. Obviously for classes that are not on the Component Palette this method is not applicable, but often it seems the quickest way to get to the information I need. Otherwise I quickly end up with loads of source files open in the Editor (which I prefer to avoid because it makes it harder to find the few files I am working on; and if ever I close a file, I nearly always seem to need it only a few moments later).
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