[Lazarus] New Help System & Viewer - sneak preview

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> 2009/10/1 Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>:
>> This is roughly how CHM works too, but the efficient versions of certain
>> parts are not implemented yet. Fulltext search is fine and efficient, except
>> for the generation (LCL takes 4 minutes to generate)
>
> I managed to modify the Makefile's of the RTL and FCL documentation.
>
> rtl.inf  (1.6Mb) and generated in 9 seconds
> fcl.inf  (0.4Mb) and generated in 1 second.
>
> I managed to generate the IPF file for LCL. Raw ipf file size was
> 6.6Mb, but I was unable to compile it into an INF file. The IPF output
> of fpdoc simply has too many mistakes and eventually the WIPFC
> compiler gives up.

Till you told me what the IPF exactly is, I had no idea what it was,
I 'inherited' fpdoc from Sebastian Guenther, and it was not documented.

>
> Soon I will start work on fpdoc by improving the generated IPF output
> (currently it's very bad) and then try LCL again.

That would be hugely appreciated.

If you want, I have still some items in my todo list which you could look at ;-)

Michael.