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<pre wrap="">Yes, noted. But some points you mentioned I don't understand. So I wonder if you
spotted a bug.
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See my other message in this thread about "context" on what I thing
that might not work as designed.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> - there should be examples for the use of the topic
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<pre wrap=""><!---->There are already some examples in the docs. So the system is there and _only_
needs to be filled.
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So an _easy_ way to have the users provide examples might be helpful. <br>
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<pre wrap=""> - there should be cross references to related and to similar topics
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<pre wrap=""><!---->For example the LCL docs already have 485 links to related topics. Not counting
the automatic and ancestor links. Again: system is there and _only_ needs to be
be filled.
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Right ! see above<br>
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<pre wrap="">With Lazarus it would be best if the Delphi help could be linked in by
the users (of course it can't be shipped :) ). This could be used as a
nice starter and everybody can obtain it legally with Turbo Delphi,
unless he is a legal Delphi owner anyway.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Maybe doable. Needs investigation.
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Another goody would be that the decent Delphi 3rd party packets come in
sorcecode and with help files that can be linked in the Delphi help
system. <br>
Using this would greatly help (legal owners) porting such packets to
Lazarus <br>
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<pre wrap="">The online help already uses the wiki for the IDE windows and dialogs. You
are all welcome to help improve the pages with examples that newbies
understand.
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<pre wrap="">If this is not included in the context-sensitive online-help this is no
fun at all ;) .
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Huh? I'm only talking about the context sensitive online help. The F1 function
of lazarus.
Maybe you are talking about fpide?
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No.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Yep. Does the system support multiple languages ?
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Some parts yes. AFAIK fpdoc has, the wiki too. But the context sensitive help of
the IDE does not yet support that. The problem with the wiki is that the IDE
does not know, if a page has already a translation.
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This is exactly what had been discussed in the German Lazarus Forum.
Enhancing the German F1 help. <br>
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<pre wrap=""> The problem with fpdoc is my free time.
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This of course is the problem with all community projects. But better
slow than never :) <br>
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<pre wrap="">I typed TForm, pressed F1 and got:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/forms/tform.html">http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/forms/tform.html</a>
The help for identifiers only works, if the IDE can find the declaration.
It does not yet search in the registered classes, nor in the whole
documentation.
If you want help for an identifier without proper declaration, then you want a
context *insensitive* search and as I said: this is missing.
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I (maybe) see. So "context" does not only mean "word under cursor", but
in fact it evaluates the context of same (the Delphi help does not
seem to do that.)<br>
But why not enhance the "context" help in a way that it offers a lost
of available topics with that keyword if no topic that fits the
"context" is found (or if the user requests a list <e.g. by
Shift-F1> ).<br>
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-Michael
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