Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> hat am 10. Juli 2012 um 12:27 geschrieben:
> On 10-7-2012 12:03, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >[...] > >> I suggest that the Kylix-related stuff in > >> http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Help_in_the_IDE would actually be > >> better on a page of its own, or moved right to the bottom of that one. > > > > I think you are confusing the topic of that wiki page. It doesn't say > > FPC or LCL specific help, it says installing "help in the IDE" - thus > > any help files that the developer would find useful. > While that may be true, a focus in the page on installing FPC+LCL help > does make sense as that is the help for the Lazarus IDE and programming > language. The Kylix help files are not available to every one. IMO the items available to every one should come first. > > [...]Some find the INF help files much > > more convenient and faster. Some like CHM, and others like HTML. That > > wiki page is meant to describe how to install any such help file > > support in the Lazarus IDE. True. > > IIRC, you asked Lazarus developers a good question some months ago: is > there a standard help format and help viewer? > Again, IIRC, at that time the answer was: no, you can choose whichever > viewer you want. About standard help format: For sources fpdoc is currently pretty much the standard. Nowadays it supports topics. > Meanwhile, lhelp has been included in the bigide build - tacitly > answering your question now with "the default help is lhelp/chm". lhelp has the lowest dependencies. It needs only one lazbuild call. I improved a few things in chmhelppkg to make it more user friendly. > > Obviously, now Lazarus should be set up to take advantage of the > inclusion of lhelp and provide chm help set up out of the box (as I'm > sure people are working on). It is still difficult to build all chm files. To be more exact: building the chm files is easy, building the input for the chm files is difficult. I guess the inf files have the same problem. The next rpm/deb packages will contain lhelp and some chm files. Mattias
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