On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi, I know that the FP IDE (text mode) has support for reading OS/2 INF help files. This is pretty cool and it works with just about any INF file I threw at it. :-) I read my old VisualAge for C++ for OS/2 docs and it says that to generate a INF you need to create the help markup (similar to HTML apparently) in the IFP file and then compile it with the IBM IPFC help compiler. Does anybody know if there is an open-source IPFC help compiler? One implemented in Object Pascal maybe? I'm been doing some reading on various help file format - to be used in my applications and possible Lazarus IDE. From my OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 Warp days I remember the INF help was very impressive. Searching was lightning quick even on old hardware and INF files a few megabytes in size. Apparently this is due to the very efficient INF help format. Anyway, I want to try and implement a GUI version of the INF Help Viewer code available in the FP IDE. But ultimately, I would like to compile my own help as well, under Linux and Windows. Would this be possible?
Standard answer I give to my boss in such cases: "Given time and money, anything is possible" :-) I suppose you'd need the INF specs in order to make a compiler for it. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
