[Lazarus] DockSite example updated

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Thu Nov 12 16:11:18 CET 2009


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:10:46AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> 
> To be fair to all those users (including me). There was no mention
> that LHelp is only meant for Lazarus and FPC documentation. Is is said
> to be a CHM help viewer, so we use it as such. Especially Linux users
> that might have Windows apps installed and running via WINE.

A bit a strange view, since it is a helpviewer designed to integrate with
lazarus. It was never explicitely billed as being universal. There is
kchmviewer, gnorpm, xchm and whatever for that.

Note btw that it could also be used/retargeted to provide application help.
And sb wanting very "rich" content or control over rendering (CSS etc) might
want to use a full browser.

But I assume that is the exception rather than the rule, specially in the
forseeable future.

> But a option in LHelp to switch rendering engines would be good for
> compatibility. Alternatively simply point them to the Firefox add-on
> which allows Firefox to read CHM files directly. All viewing problems
> solved - but then still lacks searching and Index support.

And, even more importantly, being instrumented by the IDE.

The most important function of Lazarus help is simply providing choices when
sb presses F1 in the source.





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