[Gambas-devel] Integrated Help

[Benoit Minisini]

On vendredi 21 mars 2008, Robert Rowe wrote:
> See below.
>
> Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > On jeudi 20 mars 2008, Robert Rowe wrote:
> >> I've committed my integrated help changes. This is actually only the
> >> first of two changes that I'm doing for the integrated help. The other
> >> will show a help message to the right of the completion window for the
> >> selected completion item. Since this will take a while I thought that I
> >> should go ahead an check in what I had.
> >>
> >> Robert Rowe
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have fixed a few things in your integrated help (see the ChangeLog).
> >
> > A few remarks:
> >
> > - Prefix the name of a local variable with its type (b for boolean, i for
> > integer, s for string, c for Collection, a for any array, h for an object
> > handle...)
>
> I thought that I had done this but I guess that I missed some places. :(
>
> > - $xxx is a name for a private variable. Public variables should be named
> > with letters only, the first one of each word being in uppercase.
>
> I thought that the $ signified class scope. I understand now.
>
> > - You put $bDisableIntegratedHelp in FMain. Why? You should have put it
> > in FProperty, as it does not concern FMain at all. This way, it does not
> > have to PUBLIC anymore!
>
> I didn't want the property window to have to read the config file every
> time that it opened. The value would only change on startup and when it
> was changed on FOption. Am I misunderstanding how the Settings object
> works?
>

The Open and Close event of FProperty are raised once, so you will read and 
write the setting once.

Moreover, the Settings actually reads the file once, at startup. It writes it 
when the program exits, or if you manually calls its Save() method.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini