[Lazarus] installing chm help

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sat Feb 18 12:02:30 CET 2012


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 01:20:19PM +0100, Michael Schnell wrote:
> The current discussion shows that the external interface is not good 
> enough, as it only provides a single word and not the context.
> 
> If e.g. the cursor is on "Visible"  in the line "Button1.Visible := 
> True", it can't know that help on TButton in to be shown.

> So the IDE needs to find that Button1 is a TButton and should provide 
> "TButton.Visible" to the help Viewer through the Help package interface.

That is not a feature of the keyword interface, since e.g. in the CHM case
you can easily lookup TButton.Visible.

You just have to gather the info in the editor.





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