Re: [fpc-devel] Determin file size - how?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 12/15/2011 04:48 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: Afaik neither Lazarus nor the textmode IDE currently provide fulltext access to the help. Any help. I installed DocView in Lazarus. This creates a menu entry Tools - fpGUI DocView (ctrl-shift-F1). This used to work nicely (providing

Re: [fpc-devel] Determin file size - how?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: michael.vancann...@wisa.be schrieb: I repeat: you didn't search very well. Yes, I was not lucky enough :-( IMO a separation into topics File handling (FILE based) and File management (by filename) would be a good idea. Now I also found

Re: [fpc-devel] Determin file size - how?

2011-12-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] On 12/15/2011 04:48 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: Afaik neither Lazarus nor the textmode IDE currently provide fulltext access to the help. Any help. I installed DocView in Lazarus. This

Re: [fpc-devel] Determin file size - how?y

2011-12-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: A search on file handling in rtl.chm returns a list of near 100 hits, some of which are really procedures. RenameFile is missing from that list, instead it contains many Reference for unit ... entries. I can't comment on the

Re: [fpc-devel] Determin file size - how?

2011-12-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said: Search for rename and file in the chm help: Thanks, slowly I understand how a chm can be searched :-) This should be explained somewhere, too (using Help) I'm not sure I want to pull every IT education topic into the FPC help :-)

Re: [fpc-devel] Determin file size - how?y

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 12/16/2011 12:42 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: It's fine, but like most built-in engines it is not google. Can it do and and or and search for multi word strings ? (In fact I don't know wheter DocView can do these...) -Michael ___ fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Determin file size - how?y

2011-12-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] On 12/16/2011 12:42 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: It's fine, but like most built-in engines it is not google. Can it do and and or and search for multi word strings ? Afaik default is AND. I

Re: [fpc-devel] Determin file size - how?y

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 12/16/2011 01:51 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: Afaik default is AND. I don't know if it can do OR. (and I'm not sure if that is that relevant for a helpsystem) Maybe or is not very important (but there are cases it can help), but I feel that and vs multi-word-string is necessary. I chose

Re: [fpc-devel] Determin file size - how?

2011-12-16 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Give me a link to the directory handling topic, then I can tell you more. Ah, found it: FileName handling routines (sysutils). At a first glance there is nothing missing, except FileSize. Perhaps ForceDirectories... I don't understand. ForceDirectories exists in

[fpc-devel] MakeSkel and FPDoc projects

2011-12-16 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
When MakeSkel shall use FPDoc projects, this can be achieved by adding something like: procedure LoadProject(const Arg: string); begin ProjectName := Arg; Project := TFPDocProject.Create(Nil); //owner component? With TXMLFPDocOptions.Create(Project) do try

Re: [fpc-devel] MakeSkel and FPDoc projects

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: When MakeSkel shall use FPDoc projects, this can be achieved by adding something like: procedure LoadProject(const Arg: string); begin ProjectName := Arg; Project := TFPDocProject.Create(Nil); //owner component? With

Re: [fpc-devel] MakeSkel and FPDoc projects

2011-12-16 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Then the created skeletons can be added to the DescrFiles list, and the updated project can be saved on exit. I don't think this is good. makeskel creates a diff, you should not add this to the list of files; instead, after it was created, it should be merged

Re: [fpc-devel] MakeSkel and FPDoc projects

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: No. You forget that the coupling with unit names does not exist. Please explain? Both FPDoc and MakeSkel accept one or more --input arguments, each representing one *unit*. When a project is used instead, either none or all units can be

Re: [fpc-devel] MakeSkel and FPDoc projects

2011-12-16 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Consider an existing FPDoc project, which contains all input files and all currently existing description files. When you want to create a new skeleton for an not yet documented unit, how to achieve that? Should the user copy the stored --input specification for