[Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 11/10/2016 08:11 PM, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
>>>> The best reason to have some local (whatever how limited) widget is
>>>> for IDE popups of helptext instead of an external browser.
>
> External browser requires alt-tabbing away from the ide which is a pain. A
> external browser cannot be communicated with once you open the html file.
> with a local widget, you can communicate with that widget. With an
> external browser, once you've loaded the page there is no way to
> communicate. An an external browser doesn't offer a search system if it's
> a static html file served off line.  So then you end up with people just
> using google and online help and stack exchange, instead of reading
> documentation.

what's wrong with something like LHelp and using IPC to tell it where to load 
the next help from that the user has asked for??

from these cheap seats i have way over here, it seems like you are over 
engineering this...

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