> 2006/5/9, A.J. Venter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:53, Alexandre Leclerc wrote:
> > > I'm sorry, I can't find the source code... :(
> > >
> > > The only code on sourceforge, well, I don't know if this is the
> > > compiler itself, but it does not look like. Any-way I've no time now
> > > to look at that, but I will because this is interesting me a lot for
> > > our own help file creation.
> > >
> > Did you look at the webcvs link ? It is quite possible the code is only in
> > CVS.
>
> Yep, the cvs tree is almost empty, and all files are 2 years old.
>
> Well, there is a site for open source information on chm files:
>
> http://htmlhelp.berlios.de/formats/chm.php
>
> The HTML Help Maker project at savannah is at early stage and is in c.
> But it can create the basic file "shell". If someone really want to
> code a compiler engine; it could start with that ar translate to
> pascal.
>
> But my personal idea on help files for lazarus would probably be:
> - get very well built html files with many links
> - build a search tool in lazarus to search the html files in the help
> folder. It is more simple and will do the job.
Good idea - one way to accomplish this and have a fast indexing system
would be to Ditch XML and place the documents in a database. Database
would allow fast searching of the documentation. I know someone has
stated before that they already tried to put the docs into a database
for the FPDOC system and it didn't work out well because XML fits the
document model better .. I think it's still possible, though. Not
impossible, that's for sure. Just the time needed to make the system.
Or, you could search the HTML/XML files.. but it would be slower than
just searching a DB directly.
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