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Where are the manuals?

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YanChengyuan

hey all!
lazarus is free and useful,and i'm glad with that. but where are the manuals?
i do have read some books on Delphi Programming ,but they are for newbies,and talked about things like "TEdit","TLabel" only.how come that i know how to use things like "TIPHtmlPanel","THtmlBrowserHelpViewer"and things like that without a manual ? the lazarus wiki isn't useful on this matter at all!
i scanned millions of pages from google to know a little about a component,and most of the infomation i got was far outdated.why can not our developers write some mannuals while making some components?

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Yan Chengyuan
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Henry Vermaak
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2009/3/16 YanChengyuan :

hey all! lazarus is free and useful,and i'm glad with that. but where are the manuals?

there are some here: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/

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i do have read some books on Delphi Programming ,but they are for newbies,and talked about things like "TEdit","TLabel" only.how come that i know how to use things like "TIPHtmlPanel","THtmlBrowserHelpViewer"and things like that without a manual ? the lazarus wiki isn't useful on this matter at all! i scanned millions of pages from google to know a little about a component,and most of the infomation i got was far outdated.why can not our developers write some mannuals while making some components?

a lot of the times the names of properties and methods are self-explanatory. otherwise the source is right there in front of you :)

also look through the examples. examples/turbopower_ipro/ directory will give you some ideas.

henry

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matt shaffer
to Henry Vermaak

Yes, examples are useful if there are no docs and you should got a tiphtmlpanel to work in my project by ripping some example source code. What you can also do is type in the component name followed by a period, then variables and functions will pop up. That's also a useful way to see how a component works.

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2009/3/16 YanChengyuan : > hey all! > lazarus is free and useful,and i'm glad with that. > but where are the manuals? there are some here: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/ > i do have read some books on Delphi Programming ,but they are for > newbies,and talked about things like "TEdit","TLabel" only.how come that i > know how to use things like "TIPHtmlPanel","THtmlBrowserHelpViewer"and > things like that without a manual ? the lazarus wiki isn't useful on this > matter at all! > i scanned millions of pages from google to know a little about a > component,and most of the infomation i got was far outdated.why can not our > developers write some mannuals while making some components? a lot of the times the names of properties and methods are self-explanatory. otherwise the source is right there in front of you :) also look through the examples. examples/turbopower_ipro/ directory will give you some ideas. henry _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

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Reenen Laurie
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And sometimes ctrl-clicking (left) on the function/procedure gives you insight into the interface... and then ctrl-up-arrow you can even check the code implementation...

2009/3/16 matt shaffer

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Yes, examples are useful if there are no docs and you should look at them. I got a tiphtmlpanel to work in my project by ripping some example source code. What you can also do is type in the component name followed by a period, then variables and functions will pop up. That's also a useful way to see how a component works. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: > 2009/3/16 YanChengyuan : > > hey all! > > lazarus is free and useful,and i'm glad with that. > > but where are the manuals? > > there are some here: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/ > > > i do have read some books on Delphi Programming ,but they are for > > newbies,and talked about things like "TEdit","TLabel" only.how come that > i > > know how to use things like "TIPHtmlPanel","THtmlBrowserHelpViewer"and > > things like that without a manual ? the lazarus wiki isn't useful on > this > > matter at all! > > i scanned millions of pages from google to know a little about a > > component,and most of the infomation i got was far outdated.why can not > our > > developers write some mannuals while making some components? > > a lot of the times the names of properties and methods are > self-explanatory. otherwise the source is right there in front of you > :) > > also look through the examples. examples/turbopower_ipro/ directory > will give you some ideas. > > henry > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
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Hans-Peter Diettrich
to YanChengyuan: hey all! lazarus is free and useful,and i'm glad with that. but where are the manuals? i…
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lazarus is free and useful,and i'm glad with that. but where are the manuals? i do have read some books on Delphi Programming ,but they are for newbies,and talked about things like "TEdit","TLabel" only.how come that i know how to use things like "TIPHtmlPanel","THtmlBrowserHelpViewer"and things like that without a manual ? the lazarus wiki isn't useful on this matter at all!

There should exist sample applications, used in testing the implementation, with some notes about the intended use of every sophisticated component.

i scanned millions of pages from google to know a little about a component,and most of the infomation i got was far outdated.why can not our developers write some mannuals while making some components?

Unfortunately most Lazarus developers prefer to add new features, instead of writing documentation :-(

It's fun to make kids, but no fun to have them afterwards ;-]

DoDi

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waldo kitty
to Hans-Peter Diettrich: There should exist sample applications, used in testing the implementation, with some…
It's fun to make kids, but no fun to have them afterwards ;-]

that was my thought exactly... and as a coder, i also know that i'd much rather write code than docs... i won't even speak about docs that "the average joe" can understand regardless of their coding experience ;) some would call docs that i've written "technical docs" but i've had many long time coders write to me for explanations of the docs and the code given :|

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