This is a great feature suggestion. If implemented I think it should also work with constants. For example, it cost me some 10+ minutes to figure out VK_ESCAPE is defined in LCLTypes.
Thanks! 2014-02-05 Sven Barth <[email protected]>: > Hello together! > > On the German Delphi-Forum Delphi-PRAXiS there was the question in which > unit the type TObjectList resided in Lazarus. Besides the obvious answer > "contnrs" there was also the suggestion to use F1 on the TObjectList > identifier to let the help find it for you. (For those that can read > German, here is the thread: http://www.delphipraxis.net/ > 178892-lazarus-kennt-keine-tobjectlist.html ) > > Now the problem is that this won't work in Lazarus which will return a > error message "Hilfeschlüsselwort "FPCKeyword_TObjectList" nciht[sic!] > gefunden." ("Help keyword "FPCKeyword_TObjectList" not found") [plus > another, in my opinion needless, error message afterwards with (in my case) > "No help found for "project1.lpr" at (13,16)"] and the user is none the > wiser... This is at least the case in 1.0.12 on win64, I didn't check for > any changes here in 1.2/1.3... > > Are there any ideas for improving this situation for people that know that > there is an identifier in the RTL, FCL, whatever, but don't know which unit > it resides in? E.g. Lazarus did scan the FPC sources, couldn't it keep an > identifier->unit index? Also could the error message be improved a bit? > E.g. kick out that second error and use "TObjectList" instead of > "FPCKeyword_TObjectList" in the error message? > > Regards, > Sven > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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