[Lazarus] installing chm help

[waldo kitty]

On 2/15/2012 06:08, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 15 February 2012 12:30, Hans-Peter Diettrich  wrote:
>>
>> I found no time yet to create an overview of all the basic (built-in) types,
>> which would allow to update all these types in one single place, whenever
>> the declarations are changed in the compiler.
>
>
> Once again you are creating unnecessary work for yourself. Michael van
> Canneyt has already documented all the basic (built-in) types in the
> FPC Language Reference (the chapter on Types). Can't get more clear
> than that.


the problem, then, must either be in the "latest stable" chm files i downloaded 
OR in lhelp...

my path was this...

1. Help->Online Help

2. browser loads file:///C:/freepascal/laz/docs/index.html

3. click on "Installing CHM help in the IDE" -> 
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Help_in_the_IDE#Installing_CHM_Help_for_The_RTL.2C_FCL_and_LCL_in_the_Lazarus_IDE

4. follow the instructions (as i detailed in my first post) to download the 
"latest stable Lazarus CHM help files from" 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Documentation/

5. there i chose "Lazarus 0.9.30.2" since it has the newest date (2011 Nov 25) 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Documentation/Lazarus%200.9.30.2/

6. there i chose "fpc-lazarus-doc-chm-0.9.30.2.tar.bz2" because it has the same 
date AND it is CHM whereas the only other option in there is HTML...

7. i completed the rest of the installation and here we are...


i note that martin has added a step 6 to those wiki instructions... it has you 
confirm that HelpExe is proper and also says to set HelpFilesPath to where the 
chm files are... but[!!] i _have not_ changed HelpFilesPath from its blank 
setting and the help /is/ working but not for all terms tested... i'm not sure, 
at all, what is going on there or why it is working without that field being 
filled in...

[wow, i didn't realize that my thread would cause such a stir as it has...]