On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Vincent Snijders wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt schreef: > > > > On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Chris Kirkpatrick wrote: > > > > > I am trying to provide documentation for the LCL (as .xml files using > > > FPDoc > > > and tools in the Lazarus IDE). > > > > > > In the unit Graphics, there are several Components that inherit properties > > > and > > > methods from components and units in the FCL, including > > > FPImgCmn, FPImage, FPCanvas, > > > FPReadPNG, FPWritePNG, > > > FPReadBMP, FPWriteBMP, FPReadPNM, FPWritePNM, FPReadJpeg, FPWriteJpeg. > > > > > > For example, when trying to write definitions for TPen, TBrush, TCanvas > > > etc, I > > > am constantly finding references to TFPCanvas, TFPBrush and other > > > components > > > in FPCanvas. > > > > > > As far as I can see, there are no documentation files for these Units, and > > > when I try to create a documentation entry I get an error message (see > > > attached). > > > > > > I need advice: either we need documentation files created by the FPC > > > developers, or I need to try to create documentation files using MakeSkel > > > and > > > then submit them as patches (unless the FPC team are prepared to allow me > > > to > > > commit changes to the Docs directory in SVN). > > > > You can always create the files and use them locally. > > > > As you know, policy is not to include docs unless the unit is fully > > documented. > > > > Can you create a branch for Chris to work on it? Or should we keep those > partially (because of work in progress) documented in the Lazarus repository > and then you can send patches, if you are working on it, but are not yet > finished. I prefer the latter option. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
