[Lazarus] installing chm help

[Sven Barth]

On 14.02.2012 19:33, waldo kitty wrote:
>
> ok, i decided to go back and retry this all over again... i'm following
> the instructions in the wiki as linked to by the default Help->Online
> Help page...
>
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Help_in_the_IDE#Installing_CHM_Help_for_The_RTL.2C_FCL_and_LCL_in_the_Lazarus_IDE
>
>
>
> [quote]
> Installing CHM Help for The RTL, FCL and LCL in the Lazarus IDE
> If you are using Lazarus from Subversion
>
> The Lazarus help files can be installed following this easy steps:
>
> 1) Make sure that the package chmhelppkg is intalled. See the menu
> Package->Install Packages. This package is installed by default in the
> "bigide" so most users should already have it installed.
>
> 2) Open the project lazarus/components/chmhelp/lhelp/lhelp.lpi
>
> 3) Build this project
>
> 4) Download the latest stable Lazarus CHM help files from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Documentation/
>
> 5) Copy all CHM files to lazarus/docs/html
>
> Now context sensitive help using F1 should already be working.
> [/quote]
>
>
> i don't recall how my initial lazarus was built from svn... i do not
> believe it was with "bigide", though... as such, i did not have this
> chmhelppkg installed... so, by the numbers...
>
>
> 1. install chmhelppkg in the ide packages interface. save and rebuild
> the ide... ok...
>
> 2. opened the project specified
>
> 3. built it with SHIFT-F9
>
> 4. pulled a chm tar.bz2 file
>
> 5. extracted three chm files to my freepascal/laz/docs/html
>
> placed the cursor on a pascal keyword (ie: implementation in the
> currently opened file from when i opened the lhelp.lpi), pressed F1
> and... no help :(
>
>
> so... alright... i don't recall everything else that was done but i do
> recall a help path in the ide options... hummm... why is it set to
> C:\lazarus\docs\html?? that directory has not existed on this machine in
> a very long time... definitely not since i started using the wiki
> documented method for updating from SVN at which time i deleted
> everything related to fpc and lazarus... so i change the path to
> C:\freepascal\laz\docs\html and exit the options dialog via 'ok'...
> cursor is still on implementation so hit F1 again... same as before...
> no help... try other keywords with same results...
>
> the results are that i get two windows... the first one says "Help
> keyword FPCKeyword_implementation not found" and the only option is the
> [Cancel] button... the next window then says "No help found for
> C:\freepascal\laz\components\chmhelp\lhelp\httpcontentprovider.pas"
> (38,7)...
>
> so why isn't this working??? what is the key step that has been left out
> of the instructions??

What about trying not a keyword? What about things like "FileExists", 
"TProcess", "TForm" (if the correct units are included of course).

Regards,
Sven