On 12 November 2011 19:51, Curt Carpenter <1cjcarpenter@.....> wrote: > I find the wiki useful and friendly, and have pretty good confidence that if > I have a question, I'll find the answer there somewhere. It's just hard to > know where. (I've taken to keeping careful notes about where to find stuff > -- in the wikis, on the forum pages etc.)
And that's the exactly proof to tell anybody that the wiki is a bad idea and simply doesn't work for documentation. What's the point in having brilliant documentation if nobody can find anything. Searchable offline docs are a must! And I don't just mean search for a matching word, but look at similar words with a matched rating system, include words to exclude from search results, using regex in the search term needed etc. Docview supports such type of searching already. If the Lazarus folk aren't comfortable with using a non-LCL based help viewer, then simply port DocView to LCL. The INF reading code, search engine etc are abstracted from the UI code, so porting should be easy. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
