XIDE help - was: Hint to find the source of a runtime function?

wriedmann · Post by **wriedmann** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:54 am

Hello,

is there any hint to find the source of any runtime function?
For example, I have searched for the OS() function, and could not find that function in the online help.
I have found that function then in the OS.prg in the XSharp.Core library, but it would be interesting to have a possibility to search in the entire repository.
Thank you very much!
Wolfgang
P.S. the code for Win32S and Win32Windows could be safely removed as X# will not run on these platforms
https://github.com/X-Sharp/XSharpPublic ... ons/OS.prg
starting with line 286

wriedmann · Post by **wriedmann** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:58 am

Hello,

a curiosity: please look at the sample code from the VO 2.8 help for the OS() function:

: oshelp.png (29.84 KiB) Viewed 607 times

AFAIK VO 2.x was never able to tun under Windows 3.1 (and VO 1.0 applications were really instable there).
Wolfgang

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:27 am

Hi Wolfgang,

You can download the whole source, then use XIDE or VS to navigate/search etc around it like you do with your own projects.

About the docs, I suspect this was written during the CAVO 1.0 days

wriedmann · Post by **wriedmann** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:31 pm

Hi Chris,
thank you very much!
Maybe one (not you!) could write a GitHub parser and buld a database with links.
Wolfgang

robert · Post by **robert** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:01 pm

Wolfgang,
If you open the X# help file and look for OS Function, then you'll find a blue View Source button on that page in the help file.
If you click on that button then it will bring you to the page:
https://github.com/X-Sharp/XSharpPublic ... ons/OS.prg
The function is in that file.

Robert

wriedmann · Post by **wriedmann** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:13 pm

Hi Robert,
thank you very much!
Wolfgang
P.S. since the online help on the website had no reference about the OS function, I don't even tried the local help file thinking that both would be generated from the same source code

robert · Post by **robert** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:16 pm

Wolfgang,
I think the search function on the web ignores 2 character words.
Robert

FFF · Post by **FFF** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:17 pm

wriedmann wrote:For example, I have searched for the OS() function, and could not find that function in the online help.

Maybe you made the same mistake as i did: "Search" for "OS()" gives "Help couldn't search for this entry". But searching for "OS" works!
@Robert: seems there's a problem with "(" in parsing the search entry - couldn't make it work for any function call

wriedmann · Post by **wriedmann** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:21 pm

Hi Robert,
for me the search to "OS" does not works (contrarily to Karl), and typing "OS()" removes the parentheses.
Wolfgang

FFF · Post by **FFF** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:30 pm

Wolfgang,
where/how did you search?
Xide-Help- X#-X#help file - tab search?
That's how i did.

BTW, cursor on "OS(..." and Shift F1 unfortunately does not work, while right-click lets jumps to metadata, which isn't too helpful

- @Chris, any chance to wire this to help (and ideally) jumpable further to the source?

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