I am prepping to release version 2 of Bare Game, and in doing so am producing a "lets make a game" video series where I show a cross platform game running on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and the Ouya console (a basic android system).

I am hoping the video tutorial series which takes someone from a non programming background, introduces them to Free Pascal and Lazarus, and teaches basic of game development skills using Bare Game in a series of 14 videos.

The problem is there are a few issues with CodeTools which I think may hamper new users.

One problem in particular deals with code insight, which helps Lazarus users find methods on objects. Users can normally press ctrl+space after the dot of an object and get a drop down list of properties, methods, and other information related to a class or record.

In Bare.Game library though I make use of clonable objects (cloning a sprite, cloning a pen, cloning a vector graphics path for example) and their definitions typically look like this:

TGraphicObject = class(TPersistObject, ICloneable<T>) TPen = class(TGraphicObject<TPen>)

I filled out a CodeTools bug report with a video.

Mantis report:

http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27847

Video:

http://cache.getlazarus.org/video/bare_game_code_tools.mp4

If I could get some help understanding CodeTools I could fix these errors and possibly a few others, but I honestly hesitate to put out this tutorial when I know new users are going to struggle if CodeTools constantly jumps to source code units telling theme there is an error, when in fact there are no errors.
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