[Lazarus] Help on FCL?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:08:14 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:

> The Lazarus package FCL seems to hide the FPC/FCL, at least I cannot get 
> any context sensitive help on FCL units or identifiers (using CHM) :-(

Have you installed the rtl.chm and fcl.chm?
 

> FPDoc Editor doesn't show anything as well, even if I added the RTL/FCL 
> help directories to its search path.

I enabled fpdoc for the FCL package.

 
> Can somebody explain how the RTL and FCL docs are found at all, when RTL 
> the RTL is not (and FCL a different) Lazarus package?

Every designtime package can register help for source directories. That
means when the IDE needs help for TComponent in
$(FPCSrcDir)/objpas/classes/classes.pp it asks the registered help
databases.
The chmhelppkg package registers such help.

 
> As already mentioned, we should rethink the packaging for Help. IMO the 
> LCL docs should include LazUtils

Means?

>, and the RTL and FCL docs must be made 
> available, somehow. My previous attempt to add RTL and FCL directories 
> to the Lazarus/docs/xml was dropped, because it cannot be synced with 
> reasonable efforts with the FPC docs. But now we have accessible FCL 
> documentation any more, what certainly is intolerable.

What is the problem?

Mattias