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[CLOSED] Can lhelp be replaced by other CHM viewer? [NO]
lucamar:
I'm guessing the answer is no(*) but just in case ... Can the Lazarus help be configured to use a CHM viewer other than lhelp? Say, for example, xchm or chmsee?
If not I'll have to tackle a serious modification of lhelp ...
(*) My guess is based on the wiki description of the help protocol but please prove I'm wrong! :)
marcov:
No. Very maybe you could make a driver that connects to the windows CHM help.
But for that first the CHM files have to improved (*), I have half finished work on that.
lhelp has its problems, but to be honest, from what I've seen of the *nix CHM viewers, there is not that much improvement to be had.
Moreover, they can only load files on cmdline afaik, and not react to other programs
(*) https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=28321
lucamar:
--- Quote from: marcov on February 27, 2019, 06:28:59 pm ---lhelp has its problems, but to be honest, from what I've seen of the *nix CHM viewers, there is not that much improvement to be had.
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I use xCHM very extensively to see CHMs and there are various things it can do that lhelp can't. For example, just two little things:
* change the font size (very important for me!);
* allow to be used with the keyboard! (I really hate having to reach for the mouse just to go back to the previous page)There is also the related and somewhat strange fact that Lazarus in Windows can not use the normal help viewer and uses instead lhelp!
I do agree that *nix CHM viewers are not ... ideal?... but the worst, by far (at least for me), is lhelp. No disrespect intended, just my POV. Which is why I may finally find myself tacking its modification (which I didn't want to do :-\) <sigh>
marcov:
--- Quote from: lucamar on February 27, 2019, 06:47:34 pm ---
* allow to be used with the keyboard! (I really hate having to reach for the mouse just to go back to the previous page)
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Use the textmode IDE's viewer ? Set the font size of the terminal, and browse by all keyboard :-)
lucamar:
--- Quote from: marcov on February 27, 2019, 07:56:15 pm ---Use the textmode IDE's viewer ? Set the font size of the terminal, and browse by all keyboard :-)
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Believe it or not, I thought of doing precisely that :D
Unfortunately it isn't easy to get it to work well %)
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