[fpc-devel] FPDoc and inherited methods

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:

>> How do I obtain the latest documentation on FPDoc?
> 
> make fpdoc.pdf in docs.

No Latex support here (Win7)


>> For records with variant parts, no short descriptions are shown for 
>> the members in the variant part. Parameters for overloaded methods are 
>> already supported, so this extension should not be too hard to implement?
> 
> Well, in that case presumably you can handle it ?

I'm a user of fpdoc, not a maintainer, have no idea of the internals.


>> FPDoc now also doesn't have "html" as the default format, requires an 
>> explicit format parameter.
> 
> This behaviour has not changed recently.

Well, it's documented as the default, and was working so in some older 
version. I've fpdoc 2.2.4 in my path by default...


>> The handling of the css file still is cryptic. Even with --css-file 
>> given no file is copied. The location seems to have changed to the 
>> parent directory, i.e. docs/html?
> 
> This behaviour has not changed recently.
> 
>>
>> The messages have changed.
>> What does it mean, when a dependency(?) could not be resolved? 
>> (heritage, link, ???)
> 
> Presumably a class inheritance. Can you post a more clear message ?

new alias #rtl.System.IInterface (IUnknown)
new alias #rtl.System.IInterface (IUnknown)
new alias #rtl.System.IInterface (IUnknown)
TCustomActionList's dependency TLCLComponent could not be resolved
TArrow's dependency TCustomControl could not be resolved
TAsyncProcess's dependency TProcessUTF8 could not be resolved
...


>> What do the "new alias ..." messages mean *to the user*?
> 
> As far as I can tell, they are debug messages.

How to turn off?

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