On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Kenneth Cochran <kenneth.coch...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Mattias Gaertner < > nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote: > >> Do you mean hovering over the component in the designer? >> At the moment the hint shows only the caption and some common values. >> It could be extended to show the help for the variable. Feel free to >> create a feature request. >> >> > I think he's referring to hovering over the component icon on the > component pallet. Right now the tool tip shows the class name and the unit > it is defined in. I think he wants it extended to include a description of > the component's purpose. So hovering over the TButton icon would display: > > TButton > (StdCtrls) > A push button control. > > I'm all for making components more discover-able but I don't think increasing the memory footprint of every control with a comment or description field is the right solution. Using the FPDoc info already available would be a good solution. I prefer this to the JavaDoc/XMLDoc style comments in the source. I'm willing to give it a go but I've never done anything extensive with either FPDoc or the IDE internals. Anyone have a ballpark guess as to how much effort would it take to extend the tooltip for the component pallet to display the <short> tag from the FPDoc info?
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