On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:08:18 -0500 Andrew Haines <andrewd...@aol.com> wrote:
> On 01/21/12 20:15, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:36:44 -0500 > > Andrew Haines <andrewd...@aol.com> wrote: > > >> At one point I tried to see if installing packages could make available > >> context help files (F1) but was not able to fully understand how to add > >> help databases. (Installing package "x.lpk" makes x.chm available.) > > > > What do you need? > > > > Honestly at this point I don't remember. > > >> And there are different types of help formats (local html files/ http / > >> chm. > >> i.e. there was/is? no straightforward (that I found) way to add that. > > > > Can you give an example? > > > > It's been probably a year since I looked at this. But I guess my problem > was how do we add a flexible "helpfile" setting to x.lpk? > > I need to look at the helpsystem again to be able to answer this properly. > > Does laz_xmlconf remember settings that are unknown to the current > lazarus? I want to know if setting for instance > 'help/chm/api/filename/value' > 'help/chm/ref/filename/value' > 'help/chm/xxx/filename/value' > in a lpk would be erased by being modified with a version of lazarus > that was unaware of help/chm help. Yes, the IDE cleans up lpk files. Each package and project has custom options - simple name, value pairs. > I think my main problem was that I couldn't find where the codetools > figured out that the identifier it was looking up was not in the > lcl/fcl/rtl and had no help available for it. The codetools don't know about packages. The IDE knows. > That is the point where I > needed to get it to see if the current project or the package the unit > belonged to has help associated with it. The IDEIntf has a function to get the owner(s) of a unit. See here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Extending_the_IDE#Find_the_package.28s.29_of_a_unit > I am still interested in implementing this but in the past I was unable > to follow the logic of connecting an identifier with it's help. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
