On 2011-08-08 15:54:04 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 08/08/2011 03:36 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > > Hi, in another tread I've read Graemme's mention of pressing F1 to see > > help using fpGUI DocView. Where can I find info about replacing the > > on-line help and browser to an off-line without browser method?. > > DocView can be downloaded from SourceForge, in the fpGUI project. The > INF help files for RTL, FCL, LCL and fpGUI can also be downloaded from > Sourceforge. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/Documentation/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/0.7/ > > The Docview version inside the fpGUI's repository has a lot of > improvements though, so I would recommend you rather compile a new > docview to take advantage of the new features and speed improvements. > > Integration of Docview into Lazarus IDE is very simple Simply set it up > as an External Tools item. See attached image. Assign it the F1 keyboard > shortcut. > > Bug in Lazarus: > Lazarus IDE doesn't detect shotcut conflicts between Environment Options > and External Tools items. So make sure F1 is not used in Environment > Options -> Key bindings. > > DocView can take many variations in command line parameters. I simply > setup an environment variable BOOKSHELF, and let it point to a directory > that contains all *.INF help files. You can then launch DocView simply > with the filename (no extension needed) - this is shown in the attached > screenshot. > > Examlpe under Linux: > Add the following in your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file depending on > your distro: > > export BOOKSHELF=/opt/docs/inf/ > > DocView's accompanied help file explains all the remaining options and > features of Docview. > > > I really should put all this in a Wiki Page, or create a section on the > fpGUI website. > > > Regards, > - Graeme - > > -- > fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal > http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ >
Thanks! -- Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
