Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/12/2007, Sérgio Marcelo - Sumicity Networks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Drewski (at irc.freenode.org #lazarus-ide - Andrew) is already working on > having a better help / chm files in Lazarus. > He seems to be VERY close to have it finished. Talk to him first before > coding the same thi

Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/12/2007, Mark Morgan Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are you thinking of using as the underlying document set- a collection of > HTML files etc.? That would be one of the choices yes, but so far not the first choice. Alternatively we are looking at XML or WikiText. WikiText being t

Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-11 Thread Sérgio Marcelo - Sumicity Networks
Graeme, Drewski (at irc.freenode.org #lazarus-ide - Andrew) is already working on having a better help / chm files in Lazarus. He seems to be VERY close to have it finished. Talk to him first before coding the same thing twice :-) Sérgio Marcelo Graeme Geldenhuys escreveu: On 10/12/2007,

Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 10/12/2007, Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's been a while but I think I concluded that a separate HTML file would be needed for each topic with the Lazarus help system on Linux and OS X if a browser is used to view the help. Definitely not ideal. Our

Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/12/2007, Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's been a while but I think I concluded that a separate HTML file > would be needed for each topic with the Lazarus help system on Linux and > OS X if a browser is used to view the help. Definitely not ideal. Our company is going to

RE: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-10 Thread Hess, Philip J
ubject: Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps Hess, Philip J wrote: > You can launch a program via file extension with both Windows and Mac, > but I'm not aware of any standardized way to do this on Linux. You can > see how the HelpUtil.pas in this toolkit does

Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hess, Philip J wrote: You can launch a program via file extension with both Windows and Mac, but I'm not aware of any standardized way to do this on Linux. You can see how the HelpUtil.pas in this toolkit does it with OS X and Linux: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/XDev_Toolkit Thanks, look

Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The test app that I'm recoding to "get into" Lazarus has a couple of right-button options: one of them treats highlighted text as a file name and opens it using another instance of the same program, the other treats it as a command and executes it. Under Win-32 the com

RE: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-10 Thread Hess, Philip J
ginal Message- From: Mark Morgan Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 7:12 AM To: lazarus@miraclec.com Subject: Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps A.J. Venter wrote: >> I was looking at the relevant source file yesterday and I noticed that if the >>

Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
A.J. Venter wrote: I was looking at the relevant source file yesterday and I noticed that if the location of the browser isn't specified it's found by brute force. When running under Win-32 I've used ShellExecuteEx() which automagically associates an http: prefix with an HTML viewer: does anybody

Re: [lazarus] Helpfiles for Lazarus apps

2007-12-10 Thread A.J. Venter
> I was looking at the relevant source file yesterday and I noticed that if the > location of the browser isn't specified it's found by brute force. When > running under Win-32 I've used ShellExecuteEx() which automagically associates > an http: prefix with an HTML viewer: does anybody know whether