[Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

[Lars]

On Fri, November 11, 2016 4:37 am, wkitty42--- via Lazarus wrote:
> 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??
>

I'll have to experiment with LHelp, thanks

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

Anyone who pulls in a 150MB-300MB chromium embedded plugin is likely over
engineering (not to mention bloatware).

I'm critical of my own original post. Would be much better if there was a
chromium lite version that you could embed which was only 2MB or 1MB.

One plan I had was to simply port an existing html documentation system
that runs on a cgi program on a server, over to offline help, with minimal
effort. Chromium embedded seemed the way to go because you can literally
trick chromium embedded into being a cgi like device, on the client side,
without any web server.

Whether LHelp can do that, is something I'd have to research.

I have some existing projects where the help system is already in place,
on a server, and I don't much feel like writing two sets of help systems
one that works offline and one that works online, I'd rather just have one
system that works online and offline. So I figured CEF3 or CEF1 would be a
way to make already existing online documentation, work offline too.