[Lazarus] Help on FCL?
Mattias Gaertner
nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Fri Jan 27 10:52:16 CET 2012
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
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