[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 release candidate 1 available for download

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Aug 14 13:32:41 CEST 2012


Reinier Olislagers wrote:

>>> 2. Under Windows the Windows CHM viewer should be used instead of
>>> lhelp since it is more feature complete (the html pages are rendered
>>> better there).
>> The Lazarus IDE knows how to tell lhelp to change page or shut down.
>> Does it know how to drive the MS CHM viewer in the same way?
> I suppose it doesn't ;)

> Finally, I'm not sure if the native .chm viewer is distributed with
> Windows anymore or packaged with an IDE or optional update.

I suppose the real issue is how many layers of proprietary and 
non-portable technology would have to be pulled into the project to make 
it work. At which point it would probably be simpler to enhance lhelp.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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