Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 17-7-2012 10:36, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 17-7-2012 10:15, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>From another outsider's view, wouldn't this be a solution:
1. document the IPC mechanism used for communication between IDE and
lhelp so application developers can use it
Added some notes on
http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Development#Working_8
Although that page says: "This page contains notes for lazarus core
developers about ongoing development." it seems like it can serve as
documentation of realized development as well.
See lazarus\components\chmhelp\democontrol for a project that
demonstrates IPC communication.
The source code
(lazarus\components\chmhelp\packages\help\lhelpcontrol.pas) is quite
legible... even for me ;)
While I've submitted some more comments in issue 22467, I think it can
serve very well as documentation for the protocol.
AFAIU it could be used as-is in applications, perhaps aided by taking
inspiration from the code in
lazarus\components\chmhelp\packages\idehelp\lazchmhelp.pas
Creating a component that includes lhelpcontrol added with some
functionality from chmhelppkg should be quite doable.
I was working through stuff last night and could see where it was based
on SimpleIPC, with the socket name passed as a parameter to the lhelp
program. So provided that an app can grab F1 it doesn't look too bad.
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