[Lazarus] installing chm help

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 16-2-2012 14:15, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 01:43 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
>> The IDE has all infos that are necessary to find a certain identifier
> OTOH it does not have a clue about the help texts itself, as it does not
> know what format the help files the help viewer is about to show.
> 
> -Michael

So it seems to me the best way is to
1. let the IDE figure out which exact identifier is meant
2. define and implement a communications protocol between IDE and help
viewer that gives this information to the help viewer
3. let the help viewer show the help in whatever way it thinks best

In other words, more or less what happens now with lhelp, right?
AFAIU, for external viewers the situation is currently different:
Lazarus passes the identifier name and the help system looks it up.
AFAIU, again, this can be improved by improving the IPC protocol in use;
there were some mails to the list about that.

What problem is left then, or am I misunderstanding something?

Regards,
Reinier