[Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up

Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 10:35:03 CET 2012


On 17-2-2012 10:24, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 17.02.2012 10:22, schrieb Reinier Olislagers:
>> However, in Lazarus trunk/Tools/Options/Help Options, Viewers, I only
>> see HTML Browser, not CHM Help Browser.
>>
>> Trying to eliminate errors: copying over helpoptions.xml from a working
>> (i.e. lhelp shows up when pressing F1 on a keyword) snapshot Lazarus
>> shows no difference.
>>
>> Is there something more I need to do in order to get the setting and
>> lhelp to appear?
>>
>> Now I've got you reading: a question on the help options screen itself:
>> what does FPC Doc HTML path stand for? HTML files generated by FPDoc?
>> FPC documentation in HTML format?
>> Perhaps a tooltip/hint on what that editbox means would indeed be handy,
>> as mentioned in the wiki...
> 
> Did you install the CHM help package in the IDE?

<blush>
Spot on, Sven, thanks.
Mmmm, chmhelp was marked for installation in my tests, but not
installed. Recompiled & it worked.

Probable reason: fpcup got modularized and I hadn't built Lazarus...

I'll retest from a more basic state.


Thanks again, Sven,
Reinier




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