[Lazarus] Lazarus Help

[Marco van de Voort]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:01:34AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 03/29/2011 09:16 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > The reference guide is also available online, so that is no reason.
> Sorry for erroneous language. Here with "online" I meant pressing F1 
> when a language error occurs or a language keyword is under the cursor.

Same bit. You will have to craft that either way, using FPC html or Delphi
html.

But for FPC, at least a mapping from keyword to url is available as
byproduct of the document generation (see
http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/ref.kwd). The only thing to be done is better
configurationability of the helpsystem. (so that it e.g. also works with
offline help), and versioning of the online docs, so that old lazarus'
versions still can find their help.

Again: there is no benefit in using the Delphi stuff in FPC. That it works
in Delphi does not mean that we can actually recycle it (both licensewise
and technically). Except maybe from places where the LCL is blank, but
efforts can be better directed to actually fill that, rather than implement
kludges.