[Lazarus] installing chm help

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 17 10:15:29 CET 2012


Am 17.02.2012 08:11, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> On 16 February 2012 19:37, Michael Schnell  wrote:
>>>
>>> * This is because of at least two reasons:
>>> - the CHM package overrides all databases to itself
>>> - DocView does not yet have an integration package
>>>
>> But as The CHM package overrides the database search function, a DocView (or
>> whatever) package would be able to do this, as well,
>>
>> Sounds great.
>
> No, it doesn't sound great. If I had to implement a INFHelpPackage
> like what was done for CHM, that means the last one to be compiled
> would "steal" / override all the databases for themselves. Thus, you
> can't have both CHM and INF help packages installed together.
>
>

I think that the CHM package should be improved in that case. Currently 
there only exists the online help and the CHM help as help providers and 
the CHM one simply disables the online one. If a third help provider 
comes into play then IMHO this needs to change.

Regards,
Sven




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