[Lazarus] installing chm help

[Michael Schnell]

On 02/16/2012 04:48 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
>
> Lazarus is doing this, because in theory (currently not possible*) you 
> could have the following setup:
>
> * for LCL help use the online documentation
> * for RTL help use LHelp (CHM based)
> * for FCL help use DocView (INF based)
>
> All three help systems are registered to the IDE and for each you have 
> added the corresponding files (e.g. rtl.chm and fcl.inf). Then the IDE 
> will ask each help system whether it can provide help and in our 
> example LHelp will answer with "Yes" for all identifiers that belong 
> to rtl.chm.
Would it not be easier to implement and supposedly easier to use and 
more straight forward to just provide a switch in the IDE's menu (and/or 
to allow for multiple shortcuts such as alt-F1, shift-alt-F1 or 
whatever) to select a help package to be used.

-Michael