On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:04:16 +0200 Jürgen Hestermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reinier Olislagers schrieb: > >> Of course, if I *wanted* to get information about "Cody" I know that I > >> could use Google. > >> The question was: Do I *need* to know about it to program with Lazarus? > > vs > > On 31-3-2012 15:08, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > > "What is Cody?" > > ???? > > Well, my question was a reaction to Mattias' "hint": > > "When you use Cody to add the grids unit to the uses section, it will > automatically add the LCL as dependency." > > I found this a bit astonishing because why should I use anything else > than my keyboard to add a unit to my program? You can use the Cody dictionary with your keyboard only. > And because I never heard > about "Cody" before I wrote "What is Cody?". It was just yet another > answer in the sense that it does not answer your question but instead > hints you to yet another topic so that you get into the > Linux-problem-solve mechnism to waste your live on another topic that > leads you to another topic that leads you to another topic.. over and > over again. You only never get back to solve your original problem, you > may even forget about it. The reason for the success of Turbo Pascal was > just that you did *not* have to have all the knowledge about what > happens in the background. I painfully miss this idea in Lazarus. I'm sorry for trying to help you and I'm glad that Lazarus users are so spoiled. The hint was a about a tool that reduces the burden of knowing to which package a unit belongs, search paths and dependencies. If you have trouble with "hints" then just ignore them. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
