[fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-02 Thread Bisma Jayadi
Can we have fpc's doc in chm format? It's easier to navigate and search compare to other formats. :) -Bee- has Bee.ography at: http://beeography.wordpress.com ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mail

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Bisma Jayadi wrote: > Can we have fpc's doc in chm format? It's easier to navigate and search > compare to other formats. :) The reference material: If you complete the chm backend of fpdoc, yes. The manuals: definitely out. But I don't see how CHM is better than PDF. PDF o

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-02 Thread Bisma Jayadi
The reference material: If you complete the chm backend of fpdoc, yes. The manuals: definitely out. Actually, the HTML is all fine. I just don't like to always back and forth between TOC and the content due its single page nature. It'd be better if the layout is change to 2 page/frame. Left fr

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Bisma Jayadi wrote: Can we have fpc's doc in chm format? It's easier to navigate and search compare to other formats. :) The reference material: If you complete the chm backend of fpdoc, yes. The manuals: definitely out. I once made a chm f

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-02 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 17:25:16 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I don't see how CHM is better than PDF. PDF offers all that CHM > offers, plus well-formatted printed output. In my case, I have the impression that CHM is much lighter than PDF (which is logical consider

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Adrian Maier wrote: > Also , it would be nice to be able to copy-paste procedure names and > source code examples > from the docs . This can be done with PDF as well. > > > The truly painful experience with the fpc docs is finding a > class/procedure that is > performing

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Adrian Maier
On Dec 2, 2007 6:25 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Bisma Jayadi wrote: > > > Can we have fpc's doc in chm format? It's easier to navigate and search > > compare to other formats. :) > > The reference material: If you complete the chm backend of fpdoc, yes

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 03/12/2007, Adrian Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably the people who are asking for CHM docs are hoping to experience > better > search capabilities , although the CHM format itself might not guarantee it . fpdoc does support searching, but you need to have your own search engine (b

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Adrian Maier
On Dec 3, 2007 1:04 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Adrian Maier wrote: > > > Also , it would be nice to be able to copy-paste procedure names and > > source code examples > > from the docs . > > This can be done with PDF as well. What pdf viewer are you

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 03/12/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll search my email archive for the name of that search engine > backend. All I needed to do was reformat some files fpdoc already Google's GMail is awesome!!! The search engine is called, Tipue. It's implemented in JavaScript an

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 03/12/2007, Adrian Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also , it would be nice to be able to copy-paste procedure names and > > > source code examples > > > from the docs . > > > > This can be done with PDF as well. > > What pdf viewer are you using? I can't do it on Linux with xpdf or > kg

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Adrian Maier
On Dec 3, 2007 1:41 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/12/2007, Adrian Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What pdf viewer are you using? I can't do it on Linux with xpdf or > > kghostview. > > I use 'evince' which is the standard PDF viewer with Ubuntu. I can > copy an

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:35:31 +0200 "Adrian Maier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This can be done with PDF as well. > > What pdf viewer are you using? I can't do it on Linux with xpdf or > kghostview. xpdf: like on any other x11 app: left mouse button to copy, middle mouse button to paste. It's

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Adrian Maier wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 1:04 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Adrian Maier wrote: > > > > > Also , it would be nice to be able to copy-paste procedure names and > > > source code examples > > > from the docs . > > > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 03/12/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'll search my email archive for the name of that search engine > > backend. All I needed to do was reformat some files fpdoc already > > > Google's GMail is awesome!!! The sea

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 03/12/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Google's GMail is awesome!!! The search engine is called, Tipue. > It's implemented in JavaScript and is pretty easy to add to fpdoc > output. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tipue/ > Here is a sample search page of Tipue worki

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 03/12/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Google's GMail is awesome!!! The search engine is called, Tipue. > > It's implemented in JavaScript and is pretty easy to add to fpdoc > > output. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/p

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 03/12/2007, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... Only to find it stopped with an 'out of memory' error. > So it had better be a damn good cup of coffee :-) My thoughts exactly. At least you will have an excuse to get a cup of coffee. ;-) fpGUI is a lot smaller so should stil

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Tomas Hajny
Adrian Maier wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 1:04 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Adrian Maier wrote: . . >> > The truly painful experience with the fpc docs is finding a >> > class/procedure that is >> > performing a certain function and that you haven't used

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 03/12/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fpGUI is a lot smaller so should still be possible. None the less, I > do agree - Tipue will only be viable for smaller projects. > Just for interest sake... I generated full text search with fpDoc & Tipue for the fpGUI project. That'

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Bisma Jayadi
I once made a chm from the html files, but the index generated by the help compiler was horrible. Agree. However, I was finally able to finish this job last night. It took me about 6 hours to re-arrange the index files, manually. For everyone who is interested, fpc docs in chm format can be do

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:00:14 +0200 "Adrian Maier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still unable to to copy text in xpdf. But I've just installed > evince and copying text > works . Thanks for telling me about it , Graeme ! xPDF version 3.01 permits copying. It's a little awkward, as the selecti

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-03 Thread Bee
Agree. However, I was finally able to finish this job last night. It took me about 6 hours to re-arrange the index files, manually. For everyone who is interested, fpc docs in chm format can be downloaded at: http://www.esnips.com/doc/04496e39-6105-423d-b571-b0766990b060/fpc-2.2.0-docs (5.8 MB c

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-04 Thread Roberto Padovani
why not giving it a try ? :-) I'm downloading 2007/12/4, Bee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Agree. However, I was finally able to finish this job last night. It > > took me about 6 hours to re-arrange the index files, manually. For > > everyone who is interested, fpc docs in chm format can be downloaded

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Haines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Bisma Jayadi wrote: > >> Can we have fpc's doc in chm format? It's easier to navigate and search >> compare to other formats. :) > > The reference material: If you complete the chm backend of fpdoc, yes. > The manuals: definitely out. > I have

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > Michael, are the manuals written in rtf? They are in LaTeX with specialized environments. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Haines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Bisma Jayadi wrote: > >> Can we have fpc's doc in chm format? It's easier to navigate and search >> compare to other formats. :) > > The reference material: If you complete the chm backend of fpdoc, yes. Attached is a patch to add chm output to

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-06 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > Agree. However, I was finally able to finish this job last night. It > > took me about 6 hours to re-arrange the index files, manually. For > > everyone who is interested, fpc docs in chm format can be downloaded at: > > http://www.esnips.com/doc/04496e39-6105-423d-b571-b0766990b060/fpc-2.2.0

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > Agree. However, I was finally able to finish this job last night. It > > > took me about 6 hours to re-arrange the index files, manually. For > > > everyone who is interested, fpc docs in chm format can be downloaded at: > > > http://www.esni

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-06 Thread afpTeam
Nice. Thank you. - Original Message - From: "Marco van de Voort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? > For > everyone who is interested, fpc docs in chm format can be downloaded > at: > http://www.

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Haines
Andrew Haines wrote: > Attached is a patch to add chm output to fpdoc. I edited Makefile.fpc to > require the "package" chm. Also a patch for chmwriter.pas with some > minor changes that were needed. Don't apply this patch. I have improved it a bit and now fpdoc (here) can autogenerate a TOC. Late

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > Andrew Haines wrote: > > Attached is a patch to add chm output to fpdoc. I edited Makefile.fpc to > > require the "package" chm. Also a patch for chmwriter.pas with some > > minor changes that were needed. > > Don't apply this patch. I have improved it

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format?

2007-12-06 Thread S.Anıl Yılmaz
Bisma Jayadi wrote: I once made a chm from the html files, but the index generated by the help compiler was horrible. Agree. However, I was finally able to finish this job last night. It took me about 6 hours to re-arrange the index files, manually. For everyone who is interested, fpc docs in

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Haines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > >> Andrew Haines wrote: >>> Attached is a patch to add chm output to fpdoc. I edited Makefile.fpc to >>> require the "package" chm. Also a patch for chmwriter.pas with some >>> minor changes that were needed. >> Don't apply

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:43:57 -0500 Andrew Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > > > >> Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > >>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > >>> > PS you can have a peek at some chm's I made wi

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Haines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > >> Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: >>> PS you can have a peek at some chm's I made with fpdoc here: http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chms/ they are all crosslinked. >>> With

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Haines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > >> PS you can have a peek at some chm's I made with fpdoc here: >> http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chms/ they are all crosslinked. > > With kchmviewer I get the following errors: > > An error occurred while loading > ms-

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > > How do I view this on a Linux KDE system ? > > > > you can use xchm or gnochm and I think there is a kde variant too, > though I don't know it's name. After some searching: kchmviewer, and chmsee for GTK. Than

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 07 Dec 2007, at 15:09, Andrew Haines wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: With kchmviewer I get the following errors: An error occurred while loading ms-its:/home/michael/Documents/ fcl.chm::/streamio/assignstream.html: The file or folder ms-its:/home/michael/Documents/fcl.chm::/ streamio/

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Haines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > How do I view this on a Linux KDE system ? > you can use xchm or gnochm and I think there is a kde variant too, though I don't know it's name. Andrew ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://l

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Haines
Mattias Gaertner wrote: > I downloaded them, installed kchmviewer 3.1 (ubuntu gutsy) and got: > > An error occurred while loading > ms-its:/home/mattias/file:/home/mattias/pascal/docs/rtl.chm::/index.html: > Could not read file > ms-its:/home/mattias/file:/home/mattias/pascal/docs/rtl.chm::/index.

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > > > >> Andrew Haines wrote: > >>> Attached is a patch to add chm output to fpdoc. I edited Makefile.fpc to > >>> require the "package" chm. Also a patch for chmwriter.pas wi

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:48:59 -0500 Andrew Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > I downloaded them, installed kchmviewer 3.1 (ubuntu gutsy) and got: > > > > An error occurred while loading > > ms-its:/home/mattias/file:/home/mattias/pascal/docs/rtl.chm::/index.html: > > C

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > PS you can have a peek at some chm's I made with fpdoc here: > http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chms/ they are all crosslinked. With kchmviewer I get the following errors: An error occurred while loading ms-its:/home/michael/Documents/fcl.chm::/stream

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Haines
Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:43:57 -0500 > Andrew Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: >>> Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > >> PS you can have a pee

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > > > >> PS you can have a peek at some chm's I made with fpdoc here: > >> http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chms/ they are all crosslinked. > > > > With kchmviewer I get the f

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > >> I downloaded the files and they are ok. > >> > >> Looking at the log it looks like you've only downloaded the lcl.chm > >> file again, Maybe your browser is caching. try using wget. > >> > >> wget http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chms/fcl.chm > >> wge

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Wormsley
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Sorry, Same problem. I'm also using kchmviewer 3.1, as Mattias... Perhaps some path is hard coded into the files, and it exists for Andrew (it's his system, after all) and doesn't for anyone else. Jeff. -- I haven't smoked for 1 year, 3 months and 2 weeks, saving $2

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 07 Dec 2007, at 06:46, Andrew Haines wrote: There's a seriously huge improvement in speed of the chm code when compiled with -Ooregvar. I added it to the Makefile.fpc in the packages/chm directory. That must not be done. When compiled for a release, -O2 is used which automatically includ

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-07 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:57:39 +0100 Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:48:59 -0500 > Andrew Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > I downloaded them, installed kchmviewer 3.1 (ubuntu gutsy) and > > > got: > > > > > > An error occurre

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-09 Thread Andrew Haines
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > >> PS you can have a peek at some chm's I made with fpdoc here: >> http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chms/ they are all crosslinked. > > With kchmviewer I get the following errors: > > An error occurred while loading > ms-

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-09 Thread Andrew Haines
Andrew Haines wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: >> >>> PS you can have a peek at some chm's I made with fpdoc here: >>> http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chms/ they are all crosslinked. >> With kchmviewer I get the following errors: >> >> An error occurre

Re: [fpc-pascal] can we have fpc's doc in chm format? [Patch]

2007-12-09 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 9 Dec 07, at 14:10, Andrew Haines wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Haines wrote: > > > >> PS you can have a peek at some chm's I made with fpdoc here: > >> http://hainesservice.com/andrew/chms/ they are all crosslinked. > > > > With kchmviewer I get the follow