On 11/10/2016 08:11 PM, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
The best reason to have some local (whatever how limited) widget is
for IDE popups of helptext instead of an external browser.
External browser requires alt-tabbing away from the ide which is a pain. A
external browser cannot be communicated with once you open the html file.
with a local widget, you can communicate with that widget. With an
external browser, once you've loaded the page there is no way to
communicate. An an external browser doesn't offer a search system if it's
a static html file served off line. So then you end up with people just
using google and online help and stack exchange, instead of reading
documentation.
what's wrong with something like LHelp and using IPC to tell it where to load
the next help from that the user has asked for??
from these cheap seats i have way over here, it seems like you are over
engineering this...
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