Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
[Nod] I suspect that we're not the only people asking for guidance.
And it seems everybody is reluctant to give an answer. I guess LCL
based applications simply don't ship with help? Well, for the few LCL
based apps I have tried (excluding Lazarus IDE), that sure was the
case.
I just remembered form years ago when I still used Delphi 5 & 7, we
used to use a product called HelpScribble to author our .HLP help
files. HelpScribble now supports .CHM authoring too. So I guess that
answers my own question. You need to purchase a proprietary CHM help
authoring tool to generate your own CHM help, and you'll probably be
limited to author those help files under Windows only.
I didn't make a note of the URL, but I noticed a Debian bugtracker entry
yesterday where somebody was requesting that chmcmd/chmls be packaged
separately since they're the only free tools that do the job.
The bottom line appears to be: generate either XML or HTML files, make a
list of their names, and run the lot through chmcmd to produce a single
indexed file. In principle, it should be possible to postprocess
something like a .pdf to generate very simple context help entries (take
any heading prefixed by e.g. § as a help keyword, and the following
paragraph as the associated text).
OK, I can extract marked text from (plaintext derived from) a .pdf, save
entries as individual html files with a title tag in the header, and
build a .chm. Running chmls on the .chm produces sensible output.
So how do I integrate the .chm with a minimal Lazarus project to prove
it works?
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