and if make it loads from the laz wiki? maybe help centering all data...

Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 16:06:53 -0400
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] [FEATURE REQUEST] Tip of the day

The problem with "tip of the day", is that it must be maintained according to 
the IDE updates.
"Tip of the day" would be useless (and harmful), if it suggests a feature 
that's no longer in the IDE.


Another complication of the "TOTD" is that it needs to be translated. Otherwise 
it's also useless, if the IDE runs in a language different that IDE.

"TOTD" must also be "environment" aware. Just as on your example - there're 
hot-keys present. But a user could modify the hot-keys for themselves. As well 
as "default" hot key layout is different from OS to OS.  So the implementation 
is not as trivial as "just read the list of html pages and tips foldere and 
present them to a user on start".


To summarize: adding "TOTD" to Lazarus will increase the maintenance cost of 
the system!

Instead of having TOTD - wiki pages should be popularized. 
Reason - much greater number of people could contribute to it. Removing a need 
of developers (or release builders) to maintain the set of "tips" in IDE.

Also articles and personal blogs do typically cover a lot of "tips" that could 
be found in TOTD.

thanks,
Dmitry



On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:33 PM, silvioprog <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello,
I'm using AS (Android Studio) for Android development, and AS have a very nice 
feature: "Tip of the day" window, that appear in IDE startup.



Please see this screenshot showing the feature:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/135304375/tip.png



Seems very nice to implement this feature in Lazarus IDE. :-)
Thanks!
-- 
Silvio Clécio
My public projects - github.com/silvioprog


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