Re: Beginner Question! API DOC?

"Hans-Henning.Gabriel" <hanhengab@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I am absolutely new in Delphi. I have a nice book and I already have
> some small "Hello World"-Applications.
> My question: Where can I find a documentation for all the available
> functions/procedures? For example where can I find a list (and
> descriptions)with all the functions available in the System unit?

Why, in the help file of course.

Welcome! You'll find that the classical run-time library is only half
the story, if that. Knowing your way around the VCL is at least as
important, and it has more structure than the flat collection of
routines in units like System and SysUtils. It helps immensely to know
not just the methods and properties in, say, TMemo, but to know its
lineage; in what ancestor class those methods were introduced and what
other classes share them.

I'll give you my standard (well-meant, honestly) advice now: whenever
you don't know something, type it into the IDE, press F1, and read help.
This can answer questions about any component or library routine. In
the case of components, don't stop after reading the description of the
component itself. Click around: read about its methods, its events,
its properties, its ancestor, sibling, and descendent classes.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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