On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:52:29 -0300
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/17/06, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's on my ToDo list to make a few things easier to override and write
some examples. But I'm not sure, how many types of help systems will be
We could use the principle of interfaces yes, but I don't think it
Wait, Delphi Help system is supported by interfaces,
but Lazarus still doesn't, by the moment, right ?
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Marco Aurelio Ramirez Carrillo
lazarus dot mramirez at star-dev dot com [dot mx]
On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:25:13 -0500 (CDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We could use the principle of interfaces yes, but I don't think it
Wait, Delphi Help system is supported by interfaces,
but Lazarus still doesn't, by the moment, right ?
Right. At the moment you have to create a descendant
On Wed, 17 May 2006 18:32:40 +0200
Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/17/06, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
examples. But I'm not sure, how many types of help systems will be
written. According to the threads in the list it seems only a few (chm
and open document.
On 5/17/06, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's on my ToDo list to make a few things easier to override and write some
examples. But I'm not sure, how many types of help systems will be written.
According to the threads in the list it seems only a few (chm and open
document. html and
I don't like the Help Component idea. I think adding methods to the
TApplication is better.
I am not sure if you are familiar with the Kylix Help system (more
correctly a CLX help system as it works under Windows too). It uses a
bunch of Interfaces (IHelpSystem, ICustomHelpViewer,
On 5/12/06, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not sure if you are familiar with the Kylix Help system (more
correctly a CLX help system as it works under Windows too). It uses a
bunch of Interfaces (IHelpSystem, ICustomHelpViewer,
IExtendedHelpViewer, etc...) to implement the help
One more thing: Delphi uses a THelpType to choose which help system to
use, a number or a string to choose the topic. Is this useful to us? A
string could be transformed in a number and then we remove 2
properties. This looks like just backwords compatibility. But then we
could want to be
On 12/05/06, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, should we be compatible with CLX system? If so, how do we procede
without breaking copyright? That .pas file is probably in a unsuitable
license for us, so it´s better not look in it too long.
We could use the principle of
One more thing: Delphi uses a THelpType to choose which help system to
use, a number or a string to choose the topic. Is this useful to us? A
That's what I referred to in my previous post. Just couldn't remember
what they called it! :-)
Graeme.
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There's no place like 127.0.0.1
Hello,
We had some talks about file formats for the help system, but I´m
still uncertain how the framework will actually work, so I gathered
some information and ideas here.
My idea is to develop a help system agnostic framework, so the
software does the same calls to display help independently
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