[Lazarus] installing chm help

[Mattias Gaertner]

Andrew Haines <AndrewD207 at aol.com> hat am 15. Februar 2012 um 18:38
geschrieben:

> On 02/15/12 08:02, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:59:52PM +0100, Michael Schnell wrote:
> >>> Nope. Simply download the additional CHM files, and it works as
expected.
> >> I once asked how the CHM help can be configured to search across
> >> multiple files.
> >
> > There is no "CHM help". There is Lazarus help, which loads the indexes
from
> > individual CHMs, and a viewer for single CHMs.
> >
> > IOW, afaik such searches are part of lazarus, not the viewer.
> >
>
> When you press F1 in lazarus it performs it's own search of what it is
> looking for. If it finds something it presents a list of possible
> results if there are more than one. If there is only one result or when
> you select one it then asks the helpviewer to show that topic. It does
> not use the help viewer to search the help.
>
> LHelp can have multiple chm files open and will search them all from the
> LHelp search pane.


AFAIK there is a two-way communication between the IDE and lhelp.
Just an idea:
The chmhelppkg can use this to perform a search in lhelp. Then F1 would
show lhelp with the search results.

Mattias
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