Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
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.
You're right, but "bigide" explicitly includes ChmHelpPkg (i.e., if I
understand things correctly, the various viewers) while "all" doesn't.
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.
Right, so stop crowing about it FFS and just say HOW TO DO IT. Then
somebody else can come along and demonstrate that a .chm is no more
difficult.
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.
So presumably that's where the (Lazarus) IDE's FPDoc editor comes into it?
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).
Noted, but I'm using Lazarus (and this /is/ the Lazarus mailing list, so
please don't act all surprised :-)
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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