[lazarus] help format

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Denis Leger wrote:

> Le Wednesday 23 January 2002 17:56, Mattias Gaertner a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A month ago, there was a discussion about the help format for lazarus.
> > It was mentioned, that a browser based help system would be far too
> > slow. The alternatives for the format were html, windows help, custom
> > format or fpdoc. The alternatives for the viewer were custom helpviewer
> > or gtkhtml.
> >
> > The help should be easily to edit under at least linux and windows.
> > The context sensitive help system for the IDE needs a link based system,
> > which can be remote controlled. Remote control should be possible via
> > help IDs and via keyword search like "TTreeView" -> "Items". It would be
> > nice, if the help viewer has got only one window, instead of three like
> > Delphi. I think, the Delphi navigation of properties to the left and
> > explanation to the right is nice, but I miss the big context. It would
> > help, if the left side shows a tree of the complete help instead of just
> > one node
> >
> > Did I miss something important?
> >
> > Is there any help format+viewer+editor available?
>
> I'm working on it, but don't have much time to spend to it. Wait a little,
> and i will present something, probably based on gtkhtml.
>
> By the way, i have a problem with the conversion C->pascal of gtkhtml with
> some types of variables :
>
> How can i translate :
>
> struct _GtkHTML {
>    [...]
> 	guint in_selection : 1;
> 	guint button1_pressed : 1;
>
> 	guint debug : 1;
> 	guint allow_selection : 1;
>    [...]
> };
>
> I don't know how to declare a bit variable in pascal...

You can't. You must write helper functions that access the bits.
There are many examples in the gtk translations.

Michael.