Marco van de Voort het geskryf: > > That's something that CHM does too, and nearly any format. I'm talking about > when you press F1 in the IDE and those indexes must be combined in the IDE,
With OS/2's help viewer I can do the following... view.exe lcl.inf rtl.inf fcl.inf It will then combine all three "books" into one at runtime (no speed loss what-so-ever). Now the Find, Index, Contents etc pages in the help viewer contains all information from all books. No need for special compiling them into a single big .inf file. This was often done under OS/2 to give you a kind-of "virtual" bookshelf. > I'm not yet entirely convinced what the interesting part of the .INF stuff > is, what CHM doesn't provide. Something else OS/2's INF did, and I think Windows .HLP also did. The application and help viewer can communicate with each-other at runtime. So you can have something like a tutorial teaching somebody how to use an application. They click a button on menu option as the help tutorial described. As soon as the user clicked the appropriate option, the help window advanced to the next page in the tutorial. I have never seen this done in CHM help. Is this at all possible still? This feature was often used under OS/2 and worked like a treat! As far as I remember bookmarking and printing also worked much better under OS/2 help than under Windows Help. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
