Hi Everybody, I am pleased to announce that fpGUI's DocView is available for download in a convenient binary executable from fpGUI's SourceForge project page. See the URL below.
I have also made available RTL, FCL, LCL and fpGUI class documentation in INF help format. The documentation downloads are grouped, so you only need to download what you really need. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/ Download size: -------------- DocView plus it's help file: Linux 32-bit = 533KB Linux 64-bit = 446KB Windows 32-bit = 367KB Class Documentation: fpGUI [fpgui-20100826.zip] = 0.1MB RTL + FCL [rtl_fcl-20100826.zip] = 1.3MB LCL [lcl-20100826.zip] = 1.4MB Why DocView and INF help? ------------------------- INF is a very compact and very efficient file format created by IBM and was originally meant for OS/2. As an example of efficiency, let compare the LCL documentation. LCL class documentation in INF format is a mere 3.8MB in size - compare that to the same documentation in HTML format (65MB) or CHM format (12.1MB). DocView + INF is a perfect match. Here are some of DocView's features: * DocView's rich text component is custom built for viewing INF documents. It is also very fast. Just view something like LCL's Forms.TApplication method overview help and you will see. DocView can load it instantly, under a second. Scrolling such a large page is no problem either [unlike another help viewer I know ;-)]. * DocView can open a single INF file, multiple INF files, or a whole directory of INF files. DocView doesn't even blink. * Opening multiple files means the Table of Content tab appends each help files TOC to the list. Indexes get merged as well. * Searching is lightning fast, and across all open help files. * Create a "virtual bookshelf" of documentation. Docview can open directories, or environment variables pointing to help files. * DocView is customizable. Change the fonts, adjust the search highlighting color, hide the navigation tab etc. * DocView comes with it's own help file to explain all it's features and has multiple examples of how it can be used. * DocView is very easy to integrate with any programmer editor or IDE. No need to have support compiled into a IDE. Attached are screenshots of how to set it up with Lazarus IDE and MSEide. Simply use the "external tools" feature of each IDE, and pass in the current token to edit cursor is on. * The latest fpdoc (in FPC 2.5.1) has had a major rewrite of the IPF output writer. IPF is the markup language (similar to other markup languages) used to create INF help files. fpGUI's source repository contains the IPF Compiler in binary form, for Windows and Linux. It also includes a IPF Reference Guide. What's to come -------------- * I have more features planned for DocView. * I'm working on translating the Free Pascal Language Reference document to INF format. That way developers have syntax help as well in there IDE's * Lots more fpGUI class documentation coming. Please enjoy, and I welcome any feedback. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/
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