Hi, On 18 July 2012 16:10, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote: > Basically the source for a CHM is > > a .hhp file, which is an ini-like format containing > 1. references to which are the toplevel html files to link > ....snip....
Thanks, those steps were really helpful. That gave me a good starting point, and I'll Google .hhp files further. > I don't think an application call makes sense at all. It should be IPC > (dbus) like, > to avoid multiple instances, and to avoid having settings at all. I agree with this. fpGUI currently uses TProcess to start up DocView, but that was just step 1 to get the help system going. I'm working on step 2 now, which is the IPC communications. > IOW an IPC call to register helpfiles at startup (and start a small daemon > if necessary), and then just fire the > "show help" or "give me index" commands. Yes, that is how I understood it too. The dbugintf.pas unit and the various "debug server" apps around are good working examples of this. >> specific help topics. The fpgApplication instance has a HelpFile >> property to specify where an applications specific INF help file is, > > (Only one helpfile per app?) No, you can concatenate multiple help files, specify a help directory (instead of a file), specify an environment variable etc... DocView is very flexible with this. > I don't ship Lazarus applications. :-/ Time to speak to your boss then. > At work I use Delphi, but I don't ship help with those either. (though I > have in previous jobs). We ship latex generated manuals in PDF format for You guys have it way to easy! :) All our apps must ship with help files, and we have a separate installation PDF. Our end-users are not the most computer literate, but they know everything about Maths and Science. -- 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
