[Lazarus] How to see RTL/FCL help in editor hints

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 13/06/2011 22:23, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> d) As far as I know Graeme has written another help system including
> the fpcdocs too. This has a search too. Maybe Graeme can give a link
> how to set it up.

Yes, the fpGUI DocView help system that uses the very optimized INF help
files. See attached screenshot for how to use it with Lazarus IDE. The
same can be applied to Delphi IDE or MSEide too.

In the screenshot FPCHELP is an environment variable which simply points
to the directory containing the *.inf files. This simplifies things a
bit. Docview has many options for viewing help or concatenating various
help files at runtime - see the DocView Help itself for more options.

Pre-generated *.inf files for RTL, FCL, LCL and FPC Language Reference
can be found on SourceForge, including pre-compiled binaries (Windows
and Linux) of DocView itself.

*.inf help files:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/Documentation/

DocView viewer (or compile the latest code located in the fpGUI repository):
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/0.7/


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal
http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/

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