[Lazarus] [fpc-pascal] Is there an online tool for browsing library documentation and source code for FPC and Lazarus?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Frank Church wrote:

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> On 12 November 2011 12:33, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>       On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Frank Church wrote:
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>             Is there an online tool for browsing library documentation and source code for FPC and Lazarus?
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>             I am looking for something along these lines - http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/,
>             http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/apidocs/index.html.
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>             Doesn't the FPC community have something similar?
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> What about
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> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/index.html
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/index.html
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> ?
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> Michael.
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> I already know about these and use them, but it is very easy to lose your point of origin when you are navigating among
> the pages. Actually it is their shortcomings whch prompted me to ask this question.
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For classes, I agree. 
But the Java layout is somewhat awkward for global identifiers...

> I am referring more to the page design and layout itself, the way they use frames so you don't lose you bearings as you
> move back and forth.

I understand what you mean. The floating popup window isn't always a help...
Maybe we should think about generating some kind of frame-based layout as well.

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> PS. Can the above 2 sites be subdomained into rtl.freepascal.org, fcl.freepascal.org? It makes searching using Google
> site search much easier. If they are plain html files I don't mind having the raw html so I can place them in my own
> website where I can site search them.

They are plain HTML, so you can download the archive files from the website:
http://www.freepascal.org/down/docs/docs.var

Michael.