On 2016-10-21 09:58, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > It was surprisingly hard to find a solution, especially something > cross-platform. In the end I researched help formats with the goal to > implement our own help viewer. We looked at Microsoft's HLP, CHM > formats, IBM's INF, OpenOffice's help, Gnome's help sytem and a few others.
I thought I should elaborate on this process a bit, after reading Frank's last message - in case somebody else gets the wrong impression. The research wasn't a quick search on the Internet one afternoon. Cross-Platform Help was very important to my employer. We spent 3 months researching and evaluating help viewers and help formats. We did extensive testing and looking at all aspects around help - from ease of authoring help, efficiency of file formats, file sizes and help viewers. After all that, I think we came up with a very good choice, and a solution that ticked all our requirements. My employer was also kind enough to donate back all the work that was put into it, hoping others would benefit from this. After all, they benefited hugely from all the effort others put into Free Pascal and Lazarus. Regards, Graeme -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
