chm indexes opens and reads in milliseconds. But filling Index TreeView in LHelp takes seconds of time. Place BeginUpdate / EndUpdate around TreeView filling, and delay will gone.
hh.exe can use external combined Index and Search for multiple chm's. On Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 17:15 Соболь Андрей Евгеньевич via lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Hi, guys. > > I am trying to do the lHelp more convenient. And after I have combined a > chm indexes on start, I think about next step. What I see... > 1. Exist a contradiction of behavior for contex searching through hh.exe > (windows) an lHelp (this is for first start of help subsystem): > - When I press F1 for hh.exe enabled for context searching, then Lazarus > send only one command - open chm file and seek TOC index position. > - When I press F1 for the lHelp enabled for context searching, then > Lazarus send group of command as > > got BeginUpdate > got BeginUpdate > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\fcl.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\fclres.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\fpdoc.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\ideintf.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\lazutils.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\lcl.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\prog.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\ref.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\rtl.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\toc.chm, url /index.html > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\user.chm, url /index.html > got EndUpdate > got rturl, filename M:\lazarus\docs\chm\ref.chm, url > /ref/refse92.html#keyword_function > got EndUpdate > got rtmisc/mrShow > > Lazarus sends commands for opening all chm files and the last command > is for performing contex search. As result hh.exe always does it more > faster then lHelp. I think behavior have to be same, only a perform of > context seaching. On second request lHelp can open next file and index and > so on. > > 2. I think that the lHelp (or user) should make a decision myself, open > all indexes on first start or none (for contex search primarily). It should > have own preferences for that. But the lHelp don`t have any information > about searchpath where is chm files. I can add a new command for sending > searchpath or add new option to Lazarus (open all indexes on first start - > see paragraph 1). > > 3. lHelp got a start command with the option "--hide" at start. Then lHelp > gets many commands on openning of indexes. I think that I have the right to > show lHelp or splash screen on getting first command. Without this, the > user gets a hanging program (1-3 sec) and does not understand what happens. > This is for the case when I open all the indexes. > > What is your opinion about it? > -- > _______________________________________________ > lazarus mailing list > lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org > https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus >
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