[lazarus] Help system completed

[Olivier Guilbaud]

How imagine seeks it to you in this help?  (kind the CTRL+F1 on a word cle
of Delphi which posts the help of this key word)

I saw some  a system help which uses a kind file map with the following
structure :
keyword1  /toto.html#themocle
keywork2  /toto.html#themocle2

this file is coded for found the key words very quickly.

I had found the idea interesting.

The IDE of FreePascal a system of assistance with the possibility has of
adding files (in different format).  The only thing which is not very at the
point, it is (in my opinion) posting.  Pages HTML, it is nevertheless rather
universal.

There is not a possibility of adpter existing it?

Olivier



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Maro" <tony at maro.net>
To: "Lazarus List" <lazarus at miraclec.com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: [lazarus] Help system completed


> I just realized that despite the check for csDesigning in
> ComponentState, it still runs that code segment during design mode in
> the Create method.
>
> Anybody have an idea why?
>
> -Tony
>
> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 00:13, Tony Maro wrote:
> > Mattias (et al),
> >
> > Attached are two files.
> >
> > One is the help system component.  Drop this on a form and it implements
> > an HTML context sensitive help system.
> >
> > The other is a diff I have tried to make.  Basically all I did was add a
> > "HelpID" integer property to TWinControl and the expose that in some of
> > the standard controls such as TEdit and TMemo.  I peeked inside the diff
> > and it seemed to show other differences - possibly CVS had some newer
> > files than I did when I created the diff.  I don't know if this will
> > cause problems for you, but like I said I didn't do anything major, just
> > did as described above.
> >
> > Hopefully you will find this useful enough for the LCL.
> >
> > Quick rundown on the THelpSystem component:
> >
> > You can specify a "preferred browser" such as "opera" and it will try to
> > find it first.  if it can't find it then it will look for mozilla,
> > opera, galeon and konqueror in that order.  If you don't specify a
> > browser it checks those four.  If it's compiled in win32 it looks for
> > iexplorer (should that be iexpore?) after mozilla and opera.  I can't
> > test that though... so I assume it works.
> >
> > When created at runtime, it hooks itself into the parent form's onkeyup
> > event.  It will STILL PROCESS any existing onkeyup event for the form,
> > because it will read that address out if it exists and call it after
> > executing it's own code.  When destroyed, it replaces the form's
> > original OnKeyUP event handler.  There may be a better way with
> > messages, but this was the only way I could figure out how to do it
> > without a major headache and things that are over my head.
> >
> > You provide a stringlist that contains the helpid number followed by a
> > colon followed by the URL such as:
> >
> > 0:http://tony.maro.net/
> > 1:/home/tony/test.htm
> >
> > It will also do relative URL's to the executable.  When this property is
> > set you can do something like:
> >
> > 2:help/test.htm
> >
> > and it will look for [applicationpath]/help/test.htm
> >
> > if the requested helpID doesn't exist in the stringlist, it will look
> > for a helpid in the stringlist of "0" and open it as the default help
> > page.  If all else fails it throws a messagedlg stating it couldn't open
> > the help system.
> >
> > Feel free to rename the component or hack the code or flat out reject it
> > at will.  I find it very useful for my project, maybe others will.
> >
> > --
> > Tony Maro
> > tony at maro.net
> > http://tony.maro.net/
> >
> > Check out my software "CheckBook Tracker"
> > A GPL (free) replacement for Microsoft Money!
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Tony Maro
>
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