[Lazarus] openglcontrol error
Andrea Mauri
andrea.mauri.75 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 11:37:40 CET 2010
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Lee Jenkins wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I've come to like Adobe's LiveDocs format which seems to be a hybrid
>> of Wiki and TOC oriented format and its indexed by google making searches easy
>> and fast.
>>
>> Anyone else care for this kind of format?
>
> No. :-)
> I would much prefer a off-line documentation format. I find it *extremely*
> annoying when I sit at home with my laptop and can't get help on a dialog
> or product because such help is only available online (and I don't always
> have internet access). This is why I spent a considerable amount of time
> researching documentation formats and ended up choosing the IBM INF format
> (used for OS/2 help files and other OS/2 documentation/books) as my
> starting point.
>
> INF is extremely fast and efficient (a magnitude of 15+ times faster than
> CHM), the output INF files are small and compact, the tagging language
> (IPF) is easy to learn - the 45 tags are mnemonic making it easy to
> associate them with their functions. IPF tagging language was specifically
> designed for documentation, so it is well suited for generating good
> looking output.
>
> DocView (The INF viewer I wrote) supports a Table of Content, a Index view
> and generates one at runtime if the INF document doesn't include one, full
> text search, search algorithm that rates search results so you get more
> relevant results, keyword highlighting of search text, annotations,
> bookmarks, topic browse history, font substitution, Library mode (opening
> multiple INF documents and combining there TOCs at runtime) and the list
> goes on.
>
> I am almost finished with translating the FPC Language Reference to INF so
> others can use it with DocView from inside Lazarus IDE or stand-alone. This
> should be a good example of what INF can do and how it looks, plus the new
> fpdoc IPF output writer that can build class documentation in INF format.
Good news. When can I expect the sources for that ?
Michael.
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