On Fri, November 11, 2016 4:37 am, wkitty42--- via Lazarus wrote: > 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?? >
I'll have to experiment with LHelp, thanks > from these cheap seats i have way over here, it seems like you are over > engineering this... > Anyone who pulls in a 150MB-300MB chromium embedded plugin is likely over engineering (not to mention bloatware). I'm critical of my own original post. Would be much better if there was a chromium lite version that you could embed which was only 2MB or 1MB. One plan I had was to simply port an existing html documentation system that runs on a cgi program on a server, over to offline help, with minimal effort. Chromium embedded seemed the way to go because you can literally trick chromium embedded into being a cgi like device, on the client side, without any web server. Whether LHelp can do that, is something I'd have to research. I have some existing projects where the help system is already in place, on a server, and I don't much feel like writing two sets of help systems one that works offline and one that works online, I'd rather just have one system that works online and offline. So I figured CEF3 or CEF1 would be a way to make already existing online documentation, work offline too. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
