[Lazarus] Help on FCL?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 25 January 2012 16:03, Marco van de Voort  wrote:
>
> Why not simply use the CHM help?

I think what he meant was, having the ability of reusing the Kylix
help files, while Lazarus seriously lacks good / any documentation for
the LCL. In the mean time, Lazarus developers could "piggy back" on
the help content supplied by Kylix 3 (if they use Linux) or Delphi 7
(if they use Windows) [obviously only if they have a legal copy of
each of those products]. At least the Kylix 3 help is easily obtained
in a legal manner. And seeing that Lazarus's goal is to be a clone of
Delphi VCL, this could work in a pinch.

In the case of Delphi 7 help, there is no "Open Edition" of Delphi,
and the Delphi help was in WinHelp format, not CHM. And as far as I
know, Lazarus doesn't support WinHelp format, but maybe a similar
trick can be applied as was done for HyperHelp.

But to be honest, there are so many incompatibilities and differing
behaviours between Delphi and Lazarus, that I don't really know how
useful the VCL or CLX help will be. Reading the recent message
threads, it seems they can't even agree how to compile and package the
little LCL help content that is there.

-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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