[Lazarus] Lazarus documentation

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:

>> The search is done by the chmviewer or eventually directly in the xml
>> files.
> 
> What do you mean by search is done by chmviewer?  What, chmviewer
> searches for .chm file in the various package and component
> directories?

That would be feasable, since the IDE (package manager) maintains a list 
of all available packages.


> I guess the first step would be to get the chmviewer actually working
> from inside the IDE. Last time Vincent and myself couldn't get this
> going. I triedd various settings and options and followed the wiki
> pages to the letter - no success at all. The only thing I did manage,
> was to even break the HTML help after pressing F1.

Some time ago I implemented an CHM decompiler (D7), in order to get 
access to the Delphi help files. Parts of this code could be useful in 
the chmviewer integration, or in a replacement for the chmviewer itself.

I only couldn't manage the HTML browser navigation to an selected topic, 
and syncing the contents tree after an jump to an linked entry, using 
the MS browser interface. Firefox may expose a better usable interface?

DoDi