[Lazarus] installing chm help

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 16 13:43:43 CET 2012


Am 16.02.2012 12:50, schrieb Michael Schnell:
> On 02/16/2012 03:10 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>> The token is only one word. It misses the context. It can not
>> distinguish between a TStrings.LoadFromFile and a
>> TMemoryStream.LoadFromFile. Or think about the "Create". Only if the
>> search for the specific item fails only then should the help use a
>> simple word search.
>
> Yep. But that does not mean that the IDE needs to do some search on it's
> own. It just could pass the appropriate info though the the (well
> defined) "help package" interface to have the help viewer do it's work.

The IDE has all infos that are necessary to find a certain identifier 
(though there are problematic cases like "Writeln", etc.). It would be a 
waste to duplicate this into every possible help package...

Regards,
Sven




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