[Lazarus] F1 for Help

[Leonardo M. Ramé]

On 2011-08-08 15:54:04 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 08/08/2011 03:36 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
> > Hi, in another tread I've read Graemme's mention of pressing F1 to see
> > help using fpGUI DocView. Where can I find info about replacing the
> > on-line help and browser to an off-line without browser method?.
> 
> DocView can be downloaded from SourceForge, in the fpGUI project. The
> INF help files for RTL, FCL, LCL and fpGUI can also be downloaded from
> Sourceforge.
> 
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/Documentation/
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/0.7/
> 
> The Docview version inside the fpGUI's repository has a lot of
> improvements though, so I would recommend you rather compile a new
> docview to take advantage of the new features and speed improvements.
> 
> Integration of Docview into Lazarus IDE is very simple Simply set it up
> as an External Tools item. See attached image. Assign it the F1 keyboard
> shortcut.
> 
> Bug in Lazarus:
> Lazarus IDE doesn't detect shotcut conflicts between Environment Options
> and External Tools items. So make sure F1 is not used in Environment
> Options -> Key bindings.
> 
> DocView can take many variations in command line parameters. I simply
> setup an environment variable BOOKSHELF, and let it point to a directory
> that contains all *.INF help files. You can then launch DocView simply
> with the filename (no extension needed) - this is shown in the attached
> screenshot.
> 
> Examlpe under Linux:
>   Add the following in your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file depending on
> your distro:
> 
>    export BOOKSHELF=/opt/docs/inf/
> 
> DocView's accompanied help file explains all the remaining options and
> features of Docview.
> 
> 
> I really should put all this in a Wiki Page, or create a section on the
> fpGUI website.
> 
> 
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
> 
> -- 
> fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal
> http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/
> 

Thanks!

-- 
Leonardo M. Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com