And slow down the IDE startup. Also the wiki would loose it flexibility, since the page must always be there.
thanks, Dmitry On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:18 PM, William Ferreira < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > > > > -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > >
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