Re: [Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty
On 18/08/18 18:10, Marco van de Voort via Lazarus wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >^^^ > > Well, that happens, when you try to be modern, and read your mail with mutt > instead of elm :-) hahaha... I was about to comment on dredging up such and *old* thread. The solution to the original question has been solved since a long time... DocView of course with the help source in IPF format. ;-) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018, Marco van de Voort via Lazarus wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:38:13PM +0200, Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus wrote: FWIW your post made me realize i have a few uncommitted changes (including a very important one - outlines https://coinsh.red/p/2018-08-30_20_27_48-Help_-_Welcome.png) for LazHelp :-P. I'm not working on it much though, it is mainly on life support with the rare addition of new stuff (mainly needed because i made it a target for a document preparation system i work on and needed some features from it). I only work on the non visual (CHM reader/writer) parts. Recently there were some new bugreports from people that use chmcmd with Sphinx (a tool like fpdoc for .NET). Sphinx is Python, not .NET. I tried for 2 days to get read-the-docs (a web front-end for sphinx) to work. Never again ! The python dependencies are a complete disaster. Almost as bad as npm... Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:38:13PM +0200, Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus wrote: > FWIW your post made me realize i have a few uncommitted changes (including > a very important one - outlines > https://coinsh.red/p/2018-08-30_20_27_48-Help_-_Welcome.png) for LazHelp > :-P. I'm not working on it much though, it is mainly on life support with > the rare addition of new stuff (mainly needed because i made it a target > for a document preparation system i work on and needed some features from > it). I only work on the non visual (CHM reader/writer) parts. Recently there were some new bugreports from people that use chmcmd with Sphinx (a tool like fpdoc for .NET). -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty
FWIW your post made me realize i have a few uncommitted changes (including a very important one - outlines https://coinsh.red/p/2018-08-30_20_27_48-Help_-_Welcome.png) for LazHelp :-P. I'm not working on it much though, it is mainly on life support with the rare addition of new stuff (mainly needed because i made it a target for a document preparation system i work on and needed some features from it). On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:11 PM Marco van de Voort via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 06:31:15PM +0200, Marco van de Voort via Lazarus > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >^^^ > > Well, that happens, when you try to be modern, and read your mail with mutt > instead of elm :-) > -- > ___ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org > https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus > -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 06:31:15PM +0200, Marco van de Voort via Lazarus wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: ^^^ Well, that happens, when you try to be modern, and read your mail with mutt instead of elm :-) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > Noted, but I'm using Lazarus (and this /is/ the Lazarus mailing list, so > > please don't act all surprised :-) > > I know that all too well. :) > > My question still stands though. I don't know what is the > recommendation for "application help" with LCL based applications. eg: > I create a new project which is a new Programming Editor. I want to > supply a end-user help file with my binary - like all good software > does. What help file format do I use (as the developer of that > product), and how do I create/edit that help file? There is no cross platform helproduct, so that way you are fcked. > Now if you tell me CHM, that means I need to ship LHelp with my > product because Linux & Mac users don't have CHM help viewers out of > the box. They have no decent help system out of the box. Seems the lowest common denomitor is plain html, which I would avoid. The best route would be to create some fphttpserver that serves up chm content, but I don't know the FPC webcomponents enough for that. > But what is the source help format for CHM For non API chms ? html + some index and project files. > and what tools (help editor) do I use to edit that source format It is called an "html editor". Some people rough it though, and use a "text" editor. Holy wars have been fought > and what > tool do I use to "compile" that source help format into the end result CHM > file? chmcmd, included with FPC since 2.2.x > Also, how does my product know where to find LHelp (or whatever CHM viewer > I want to use)? As said, that is not a CHM issue, but a "state of linux help" issue. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
