[Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> On 17-7-2012 12:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, this would mean the xdg-open tools don't allow context-sensitive
>>> help... and end of discussion on that front as far as LCL application
>>> help is concerned, I suppose.
> <snip>
>> The only relevance is that this- in my opinion at least- should be the
>> primary way that a program tries to locate subsidiary file viewers etc.
>> It's the unix answer to ShellOpenEx() (or whataver the Windows API's
>> function is).
> 
> Ah, ok.
> 
> AFAIU, LCLIntf.OpenDocument('thedocument.chm'); would open the CHM file
> with the system viewer (if present) in a cross-platform way.
> On Windows (sysenvapis_win.inc) it uses ShellExecute/ShellExecuteW.
> 
> On Unix, Linux (sysenvapis_unix.inc), it looks for xdg-open, kfmclient,
> gnome-open and tries those.
> 
> On OSX (sysenvapis_mac.inc), it runs
> RunCmdFromPath('open',ResultingPath);
> too lazy to look up what that does.
> 
> There seems to be an implementation for Android customdrawn as well.

Thanks for that- I'd missed that the xdg stuff had (finally :-) been added.

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