[Lazarus] No help found for...

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:16:17 +0200
Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/06/2010, Marco van de Voort  wrote:
> >
> > It is not that help that is the problem, it is the context sensitive help
> > which is currently done by wiki.
> 
> But with DocView and INF help files, I have solved the context
> sensitive help for Language Syntax, LCL, FCL, RTL etc.. The only help
> I don't have is for the various dialogs in the IDE itself (maybe this
> is what you mean?). 

Yes.

> That help unfortunately sits in a very crappy format and in the wiki only. Maybe one day we will have an export wiki
> to XXX format, where XXX is something more usable, like the XML format
> of fpdoc. Then just like fpdoc, we can write conversion units form XXX
> to CHM, INF, HTML, PDF, Man pages etc. which will allow end-users to
> have off-line help for everything.

I guess 99% of the wiki text uses only 9 attributes (bold, italic,
delphi, command, title 1-4, link, image, bullet and ordered list).
That should be easy to parse. Of course you have to parse the source,
not the html output. 
Tables and translations could be tricky.


Mattias