On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:30:44 +0100 Michael Schnell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 06:38 PM, Andrew Haines wrote: > > When you press F1 in lazarus it performs it's own search of what it is > > looking for. If it finds something it presents a list of possible > > results if there are more than one. > Where does Lazarus (I suppose you mean the IDE ) search ? It asks the registered help databases. See View / IDE internals / About IDE / help. The help databases do the real search and how they do that is completely up to them. > If it finds anything does it call the Help viewer via the Help Package > interface (i.e. can the help viewer add some info) or does it organize > the output on its own ? If no db found anything, then the IDE shows an error message. If multiple db found something, then the IDE shows a dialog to choose. If only one db found something, then the IDE calls the help viewer of the mime type. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
