[Lazarus] Help on FCL?

[Andrew Haines]

On 01/21/12 14:25, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner schrieb:

>> AFAIK the chm viewer loads all chm files. And yes, when the package
>> name is 'rtl' it shows something from the rtl.chm. I don't know how the
>> chm viewer handles the combined rtl+fcl+lcl.chm file.
> 
> Why (and how) would you produce such an combined file?
> 

See my other mail.

> Actually I run into a number of problems with the CHM files. Only one
> directory is accepted, 

You mean only one directory can have chm files in it?

> and this entry also is updated when the Options
> dialog is left with Cancel. 
...
> When I copy my additional files (e.g.
> lazutils.chm) into the chm help directory, these files are not
> recognized by F1.
...

> When I open such an file manually, the other files
> (e.g. lcl.chm) are no more recognized by the help viewer :-(
> 

Manually = lhelp File -> Open?

At one point I tried to see if installing packages could make available
context help files (F1) but was not able to fully understand how to add
help databases. (Installing package "x.lpk" makes x.chm available.) And
there are different types of help formats (local html files/ http / chm.
i.e. there was/is? no straightforward (that I found) way to add that.

Regards,

Andrew Haines