Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-24 Thread Sam Liddicott
Al Boldi wrote: Sam Liddicott wrote: Tom Gregorovic wrote: Hi, it crossed my mind that it would be convenient to have one search service for all the information about Lazarus and Free Pascal, which are in forums, mail list archives, documentation reference, wiki, Mantis, SVN

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-24 Thread Al Boldi
Sam Liddicott wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Sam Liddicott wrote: I recommend xapian; www.xapian.org I've worked on it, I've used it and I've followed it's progress and when I worked at Orange we hired one of the developers to enhance it. It is based on a once-commercial search engine.

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-23 Thread Sam Liddicott
Tom Gregorovic wrote: Hi, it crossed my mind that it would be convenient to have one search service for all the information about Lazarus and Free Pascal, which are in forums, mail list archives, documentation reference, wiki, Mantis, SVN repository, SVN log, blog ... One possibility is Google

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-23 Thread Al Boldi
Sam Liddicott wrote: Tom Gregorovic wrote: Hi, it crossed my mind that it would be convenient to have one search service for all the information about Lazarus and Free Pascal, which are in forums, mail list archives, documentation reference, wiki, Mantis, SVN repository, SVN log, blog

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-21 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Hi Wanderlan - A standard patch from a Diff would be fine. Yu can either post it on the mailing list, or you can avoid annoying all the other recipients (!) by sending direct to me at the above email. If you like I can make minor alterations before committing. Earliest undocumented ancestor

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-21 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:49:21 + Chris Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wanderlan - A standard patch from a Diff would be fine. Yu can either post it on the mailing list, or you can avoid annoying all the other recipients (!) by sending direct to me at the above email. If you like

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-21 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Mattias Gaertner wrote: Please concentrate on the public or published properties - anyway, these are the only ones that MakeSkel will have put into the skeleton XML file. Would it hurt, if other tools add entries for private and protected members? No, absolutely not. It would

[lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Tom Gregorovic
Hi, it crossed my mind that it would be convenient to have one search service for all the information about Lazarus and Free Pascal, which are in forums, mail list archives, documentation reference, wiki, Mantis, SVN repository, SVN log, blog ... One possibility is Google Custom Search Engine

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos
I tryed Live Search with optimal results http://search.live.com/ It is more quick and its parser is better than Google. For example, try this syntax in Live Search: TStringGrid (site:lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net OR site:www.lazarus.freepascal.org) It would replace the Lazarus IDE Help engine

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Damien Gerard
On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos wrote: I tryed Live Search with optimal results http://search.live.com/ It is more quick and its parser is better than Google. More Basic is more appropriate I think. And the main front page of the Google website has not been built to

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:23:53 -0300 Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tryed Live Search with optimal results http://search.live.com/ It is more quick and its parser is better than Google. For example, try this syntax in Live Search: TStringGrid

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos
Hello Mattias, I did some tests now and all is quick... Probably Sourceforge site, that host the Lazarus help, was slow when I tested. And this occurs frequently. Sorry by my precipitate comment.:( One suggestion: Pascal reserved words would be recognized to show articles at FP Reference Guide

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:07:33 -0300 Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mattias, I did some tests now and all is quick... Probably Sourceforge site, that host the Lazarus help, was slow when I tested. And this occurs frequently. Sorry by my precipitate comment.:( One

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:07:33 -0300 Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mattias, I did some tests now and all is quick... Probably Sourceforge site, that host the Lazarus help, was slow when I tested. And this occurs frequently. Sorry by my precipitate comment.:(

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Hi Wanderlan - I am currently trying to assemble on-line help for the LCL, and if you are offering to help, I am delighted! The tool we use is FPCDoc, which takes the source xx.pas or xx.pp and extracts all the identifiers, declared classes and types, procedures and functions, etc, and then

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos
Very nice... Put my name at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LCL_Documentation_Roadmap --- Edit in Lazde --- Generate a Patch --- Submit to Mantis--- Return again!!! I wish to document Grids unit and extend its funcionality. TIA, Wanderlan

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Carlos German Tejero
Maybe, samebody can take a look of this http://ioda.sourceforge.net/, a full text search project (posible dead) written in fpc. -- Carlos Germán Tejero

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos
Hi Chris, What you already documented? You are alone in this? What are your priorities? What should be documented next? How english is not my native language, my texts' style can look a bit convoluted...;} Wanderlan On 11/20/07, Carlos German Tejero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe, samebody

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Carlos German Tejero wrote: Maybe, samebody can take a look of this http://ioda.sourceforge.net/, a full text search project (posible dead) written in fpc. I think this is actually a very good hint. Maybe we should evaluate this tool and see if we can use it for the

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Hi Wanderlan - I have started at the 'ancestor' level of the LCL, and have produced documentation for several of the Classes in Controls, mainly TControl, TWinControl, TCustomControl; then I did some work on Dialogs, Forms (TForm, TApplication, TScreen and TScrollBox) and Graphics (TBitMap,

Re: [lazarus] Search engine for Lazarus and Free Pascal concerned stuff

2007-11-20 Thread Wanderlan Santos dos Anjos
Ok Chris, I have noticed that you like to write ... I will take the deepest ancestor to TStringGrid, not documented yet, and will begin documenting from there. This approach is ok? How would you prefer to receive the material to review it? Is a standard patch ok? Or not? Perhaps XML, HTML,