[Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

Graeme Geldenhuys mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk
Mon Nov 7 00:20:55 CET 2016


On 2016-10-21 09:58, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> It was surprisingly hard to find a solution, especially something
> cross-platform. In the end I researched help formats with the goal to
> implement our own help viewer. We looked at Microsoft's HLP, CHM
> formats, IBM's INF, OpenOffice's help, Gnome's help sytem and a few others.

I thought I should elaborate on this process a bit, after reading
Frank's last message - in case somebody else gets the wrong impression.
The research wasn't a quick search on the Internet one afternoon.
Cross-Platform Help was very important to my employer. We spent 3 months
researching and evaluating help viewers and help formats. We did
extensive testing and looking at all aspects around help - from ease of
authoring help, efficiency of file formats, file sizes and help viewers.

After all that, I think we came up with a very good choice, and a
solution that ticked all our requirements. My employer was also kind
enough to donate back all the work that was put into it, hoping others
would benefit from this. After all, they benefited hugely from all the
effort others put into Free Pascal and Lazarus.

Regards,
  Graeme



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