Marco van de Voort schrieb:

 And as far as I
know, Lazarus doesn't support WinHelp format, but maybe a similar
trick can be applied as was done for HyperHelp.

Winhelp is RTF based.

That should not be a problem, IMO nowadays HTML with CSS offers the same support - except for platform specific items like calling DLL functions.

Microsoft had more problems with Word, where every new version created differently buggy RTF, so that a new help compiler was required for every new version of Word :-]


But to be honest, there are so many incompatibilities and differing
behaviours between Delphi and Lazarus, that I don't really know how
useful the VCL or CLX help will be. Reading the recent message
threads, it seems they can't even agree how to compile and package the
little LCL help content that is there.

It still gets the primary gist. But I prefer to get such info from public
sources on the internet, and not directly from Embarcadero sources.

IMO D7 help still is the most complete and reliable Delphi documentation, it's only slightly outdated after introduction of Unicode strings, generics etc. Embarcadero missed to import these contents into the new HTML (HH2) help system, which had to be choosen for including help on/from .NET.

DoDi


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