[Lazarus] LHelp or help systems that also work on..

[Andrew Haines]

On 11/19/2016 05:33 PM, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
> On Sat, November 19, 2016 3:24 pm, Lars wrote:
>> On Fri, November 18, 2016 5:08 am, Andrew Haines via Lazarus wrote:
>>
>>> lhelp uses IPC to communicate so it wouldn't be too bad to write a
>>> Delphi
>>> unit to control it.
> p.s. in addition to my last message, wouldn't SimpleIPC need to be ported
> to delphi then..  or at least some of it's mechanism.
>
> Would be neat if simpleipc was available in delphi so fpc programs could
> communicate to delphi programs.  If only simpleipc was standardized and
> available in all languages ;-)

Looking at the simpleipc unit I see

TMsgHeader = Packed record
     Version : Byte;
     MsgType : TMessageType;
     MsgLen  : Integer;
   end;

I guess the message content, assuming any following data, is after 
MsgLen. This would be easy to implement.

Regards,


Andrew Haines