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Re: How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?

by "Jason Burgon" <jaynews@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dec 17, 2007 at 07:59 AM

"Jacky" <jl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:47661e1f$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> As told by Jason, yes I can find the help files, is there anyway i can
> extract the "prototypes" to a "text" file.

You could do it manually by copy-then-paste (into a text editor window) of
the function prototypes that are shown in the IDE help. Though I don't
really know why you would want to to this.

When I am writing code and I want to use a certain function for which I
can't remember the parameters for then I will often:

(1) Use [Ctrl]+[F1] on the name of the function I want to use, or find the
function via the Help:Index ([****ft]+[F1]).
(2) Read the help screen to refresh my failing memory, then copy the
function declaration from the help screen into my source file.
(3) Run though the pasted prototype, replacing its formal parameters with
the actual parameters I want to pass it.

The above perhaps sounds more complicated than it actually is, since the
whole process is very quick and easy in practice.

--
Jay

Jason Burgon - author of Graphic Vision
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gvision
 




 9 Posts in Topic:
How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?
"Jacky" <jl@  2007-12-14 21:33:40 
Re: How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?
Marco van de Voort <ma  2007-12-14 14:06:45 
Re: How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?
"Jason Burgon"   2007-12-14 14:25:52 
Re: How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?
"Jason Burgon"   2007-12-14 22:19:39 
Re: How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?
"Jacky" <jl@  2007-12-17 14:31:01 
Re: How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?
"Jacky" <jl@  2007-12-17 14:46:45 
Re: How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?
"Jacky" <jl@  2007-12-17 14:58:47 
Re: How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?
"Jason Burgon"   2007-12-17 07:59:27 
Re: How does a programmer know the arguments of a function?
Marco van de Voort <ma  2007-12-17 08:51:44 

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