On Tue, September 8, 2009 13:35, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: >> 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. > > Or maybe because it cached the search index to disk, like most helpfiles. > > This is what I'm currently researching for CHM. (merged CHMs/.chw files) > While currently it is fast enough, performancewise, "nice" results > probably > need to mine more info. > >> 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? > > I'd go shopping by the OS/2 centric compilers like sybil and vpascal. But > fat chance that they used some OS/2 tool for it that isn't ported.
VP doesn't use .INF files even internally (proprietary help format, similarly to TP) and certainly doesn't provide an IPF compiler. For Sibyl I strongly believe that they rely on the IBM tool. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
