Alexandre Leclerc wrote:
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.
The project seems quite inactive, showing 0 developers, but the source
code is available. It is in an obscure location. On Sourceforge
Helpmaker main page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/helpmaker/ , click
on Files, this opens up this page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=85113 . The
'sf.zip' file contains the main source code.
A while back I did try compiling the code with Lazarus, but ran into a
substantial roadblock. Helpmaker code uses at least one if not more
commercial Delphi plugins. So a Lazarus port would probably not be a
casual undertaking. Still if somebody managed to do it, it would
probably be, IINM, the only windows help editor free or otherwise
running on Linux. A step toward breaking the chicken and egg syndrome of
using windows help files on Linux.
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.
But I must say that having a compiled help file is a very nice idea.
Best regards.
George.
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