Tomas Hajny het geskryf: > remembered it wrongly. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
http://owbuilder.malakovi.cz/snapshot/ I downloaded the Linux IPF compiler from here... I don't know how recent that copy is though. > Simple pictures are certainly no problem (although I believe that the INF > format only supports BMP files - no JPG, no GIF or PNG, etc.). However, I > was more referring to more advanced formatting possibilities; yet again, > this may or may not be important depending on your needs and expectations. I do not understand "advanced formatting possibilities"? INF supports only BMP and MET (meta graphics). INF also supports hyperlinks via text and graphics. For the graphics you can also support segmented graphic links -- one image containing various links to different help topics or other help files etc... Similar thing to HTML's image map support. http://tinyurl.com/nvjvdz or http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/ej6c2b00/2.3.2.2.3?SHELF=&DT=19941104154554 What I am doing at the moment is reviewing various help formats so I can implement something that works for fpGUI based applications. I do not limit myself to the exact feature list of previous help formats. The INF is a case in point. If I want to support png images in INF, I will add such support in the viewer and compiler. Obviously, then I will change the help file extension as no to confuse other users thinking the INF I use is the same format as the INF used in OS/2. I'm collecting a feature list for application help. Good compression, speed, size, easy help authoring etc... Obviously I start off with the stock help formats and add my personal needs from there - if the stock help format doesn't support what I want. 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
