[Lazarus] Ok I give up!

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 4-3-2013 16:54, appjaws wrote:
> On 04/03/13 11:28, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 4-3-2013 12:21, appjaws wrote:
>>> On 02/03/13 17:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>>> On 2-3-2013 17:41, appjaws wrote:
>>>>> Any ideas on the built in help, I'm using linux with lazarus 1.0.6 and
>>>>> fpc 2.6.0
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>> Finally, built in help is a nice aid: with your cursor on TMemo,
>>>>>>> press
>>>>>>> F1 and you'll see properties and methods that are available.
>>>>>
>>>>>    I don't think my built in help is working, F1 does nothing.
>>>>>    How do I enable built in help?
>>>>
>>>> Well, did you read the wiki article I posted the link for? What
>>>> happened?
>>>
>>> Help is installed in Install/Uninstall Packaged ChmHelpPkg 0.1 is on the
>>> installed side.  However, F1 is not working, when I look at Tools,
>>> Options, Key Mapping, Help menu commands, Context sensitive help [F1] is
>>> shown but F1 does not do anything so I tried to change the key using the
>>> edit button but the new key was not displayed alongside the entry (Where
>>> [F1] was) and the new key did not work.
>> Perhaps it's not the key mapping that's wrong?....
>>
>>> The next entry 'Edit context sensitive help [Ctrl+Shift+F1] does work.
>>> So I am baffled as to what to try next.
>>
>> ... Try reading the next section & checking the settings & chm files are
>> okay instead of just the part about the key mappings.
>>
> 
> Thank you for the reply,
> I have followed the 'installing_Help_in_the_IDE document and  F1 still
> does not work.
> /usr/share/lazarus/1.06  is where the components docs etc are installed.
I hope you mean this is the directory where Lazarus is installed (where
the lazarus and startlazarus executables are)

> /usr/lib64/fpc/2.6.0 is where pascal is installed/
Thanks, but fairly irrelevant unless you have chm/html help files and
want to fiddle with things...

> HelpEXE :- /usr/share/lazarus/1.0.6/components/chmhelp/lhelp/lhelp
That looks good.

> HelpFilesPath :- /usr/share/lazarus/1.0.6/docs/chm/
That looks good. Do you have
fcl.chm  lazutils.chm  lcl.chm  prog.chm  ref.chm  rtl.chm  toc.chm
user.chm
in there?
If not, download the chm documentation from sourceforge and unpack the
chms there (see the wiki article)
> fpc docs :- /usr/share/doc/fp-docs/$(FPCVER)
Again, irrelevant

> As far as I can tell everything seems to be in the correct place and
> referenced correctly.
I don't know. You haven't told us your tools/options/help/help options
settings. Following the instructions in the wiki (with everything in the
....chm directory mentioned above), CHM Help Viewer's HelpFilesPath
should be empty.
Likewise the various Help Databases settings should be unchanged from a
default install (mostly empty).

Hope with this you can get it going!