[Lazarus] Help on FCL?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:22:49 +0100
Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:52:04PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > >> blessed with variable network latency. And it's absolutely no substitute 
> > >> for the context-sensitive help offered by most IDEs.
> > > 
> > > Lazarus and the textmode IDE both provide context sensitive help. (CHM
> > > based)
> > 
> > Right. So as I said earlier: where's the idiot's guide to getting the 
> > up-to-date files and putting them where they'll do most good,
> 
> The readme in the relevant docs-chm archive?

Maybe the chmhelppkg.lpk can add some hints to the IDE?
Or maybe even a small dialog to run the scripts and create the chm
files?

 
> > and what can be done to make sure that people hitting Google or the wiki
> > sees those instructions?

Google for "lazarus chm" already gives as top hits all the wiki pages.
And they contain links to each other.


> The current situation is a result of competing help formats. This made
> developers wary of choosing one over the other as "default" format.

Evidently the competition has pushed the help formats.

Mattias