On 10 July 2012 14:52, Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > I normally build Lazarus from svn, targeting bigide, so I'm not sure that > instructions that tell me to download prebuilt binary .chm files are > relevant to me.
I may be wrong, but as far as I know doing a 'make bigide' will not build the help files, just the LCL and IDE. Well that is how it works here with 0.9.30.x - I don't know if Lazarus Trunk has changed this. > b) What is the easiest way of integrating .chm files for the RTL etc., to > the extent that context-sensitive help works for things like Format()? See, that is where CHM help lags behind, and why I mentioned INF some time back. The way DocView integrates in the IDE (via the External Tools menu, and not as a compiled in help-interface to the IDE), I can get Object Pascal language help no problem. The CHM help (and the other compiled help-interface addons to Lazarus IDE) only works well for class / API help. The built-in Indexing and Full Text Search of INF help makes in a no-brainer to find the correct help topic from a keyword search. You must remember that there is a difference between FPC's Language Syntax help (built from LaTex and primarily targets PDF output) and the Class / API help (built from XML files). > Finally, if I just want to add a few lines of plain text as > context-sensitive help for a control or form, with the main documentation Which one is it? Control or Form? If it's a Control, then it falls under the Class / API help, which means XML files must be edited. If it is a Form (as in application help describing a dialog in your application), then it's something else. For the latter case, I don't actually know what is the recommendation for application help with LCL based applications. For fpGUI based applications, it is an IPF plain-text file (the help source which gets compiled into binary INF help). If you are referring to the help viewer, then again, that is where LHelp lags behind. DocView allows you to annotate (add inline comments) any INF files. Those annotations are stored in a separate file (<helpfile>.notes), which you can move around or copy with the INF file to a new computer if you want. LHelp has no such functionality. -- 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
