On 2013-04-20 20:05, Marco van de Voort wrote: > The primary use of SDK information is to access them using context > information from within the IDE. In the matching version of course.
"matching version" is a very good point. Currently Lazarus totally fails that point. You can download a 0.9.30.4 version, but have NO related documentation, because the wiki and HTML help is constantly moving. This is a problem for the IDE help and the LCL help. One can't stress enough the importance of good help - especially in large applications or frameworks. Just look at the mess Embarcadero Delphi help is in. I installed Delphi XE the other day, and included the help option, yet searching for anything returns no results, yet manually navigating to the topic does reveal help - but often outdated. The last good and up-to-date help for Delphi was Delphi v7 - under Borland's control. There online wiki help is not much better. > Since the > disappearance of online help (or a mere move or change of hosting) would > make older versions of the tool unusable, otherwise. Another very good point. I often use "The Wayback Machine" to try and find information which disappeared on the internet. Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes not. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
