On Wed, September 9, 2009 09:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Tomas Hajny het geskryf:
>> remembered it wrongly. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
>
> http://owbuilder.malakovi.cz/snapshot/
>
> I downloaded the Linux IPF compiler from here... I don't know how recent
> that copy is though.
Apparently mor
On Wed, September 9, 2009 09:24, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Tomas Hajny het geskryf:
>>
>> Probably clear from the previous discussion in the meantime, but anyway
>> -
>> neither LCL nor Lazarus itself have been ported to OS/2.
>
> Yup, sorry to hear that. I'll add OS/2 support as a feature request
Tomas Hajny het geskryf:
>
> Probably clear from the previous discussion in the meantime, but anyway -
> neither LCL nor Lazarus itself have been ported to OS/2.
Yup, sorry to hear that. I'll add OS/2 support as a feature request for
fpGUI Toolkit. It's relatively easy to add new backends to fpGU
Tomas Hajny het geskryf:
> remembered it wrongly. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
http://owbuilder.malakovi.cz/snapshot/
I downloaded the Linux IPF compiler from here... I don't know how recent
that copy is though.
> Simple pictures are certainly no problem (although I believe that the INF
> form
On Wed, September 9, 2009 08:35, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Tomas Hajny het geskryf:
>> interesting/better than CHM nowadays (except for the fact that I'm not
>> aware of a CHM viewer for OS/2, which is an important downside for me
>
> Doesn't the 'lhelp' project, which is included with Lazarus IDE
Tomas Hajny het geskryf:
> interesting/better than CHM nowadays (except for the fact that I'm not
> aware of a CHM viewer for OS/2, which is an important downside for me
Doesn't the 'lhelp' project, which is included with Lazarus IDE, compile
under OS/2? Then again, does Lazarus actually run unde
In our previous episode, Vincent Snijders said:
> Marco van de Voort schreef:
> > In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
> aware of a CHM viewer for OS/2, which is an important downside for me
> personally, of course ;-) ).
> >>> Then fix the textmode IDE for OS/2 :-)
> >> Would it st
Marco van de Voort schreef:
In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
aware of a CHM viewer for OS/2, which is an important downside for me
personally, of course ;-) ).
Then fix the textmode IDE for OS/2 :-)
Would it start working as a general CHM viewer then (including e.g.
display of embedd
In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
> >> aware of a CHM viewer for OS/2, which is an important downside for me
> >> personally, of course ;-) ).
> >
> > Then fix the textmode IDE for OS/2 :-)
>
> Would it start working as a general CHM viewer then (including e.g.
> display of embedded pictu
On Tue, September 8, 2009 17:05, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
>> >> (NewView) implemented in Object Pascal (I think it's Free Pascal
>> >> Compiler compatible).
>> >
>> > Don't forget licensing issues. Also keep in mind that portable editors
>> and
>> > gen
On Tue, September 8, 2009 15:04, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Tomas Hajny het geskryf:
>> I'm not aware of any IPF compiler apart from that one produced by IBM
>> and
>
> Actually Lawrence Haynes, from the Open Watcom project re-engineered a
> clean-room implementation for the Open Watcom project. It
In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
> >> (NewView) implemented in Object Pascal (I think it's Free Pascal
> >> Compiler compatible).
> >
> > Don't forget licensing issues. Also keep in mind that portable editors and
> > generators for HTML are plenty. What about .INF? Is there a Latex2inf?
>
On Tue, September 8, 2009 15:07, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
>> Marco van de Voort het geskryf:
.
.
>> PS #2:
>> I found the source code for Sibyl IDE which contains a GUI help viewer
>> (NewView) implemented in Object Pascal (I think it's Free Pas
Marco van de Voort het geskryf:
>
> That's something that CHM does too, and nearly any format. I'm talking about
> when you press F1 in the IDE and those indexes must be combined in the IDE,
With OS/2's help viewer I can do the following...
view.exe lcl.inf rtl.inf fcl.inf
It will then combin
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> Marco van de Voort het geskryf:
> >
> > Or maybe because it cached the search index to disk, like most helpfiles.
>
> As far as I can see, from reading various INF docs is that the IFP
> Compiler generates the index and keywords at compile-time a
Tomas Hajny het geskryf:
> I'm not aware of any IPF compiler apart from that one produced by IBM and
Actually Lawrence Haynes, from the Open Watcom project re-engineered a
clean-room implementation for the Open Watcom project. It is called
'wipfc' and source code is available. There now exists nat
Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf:
>
> I suppose you'd need the INF specs in order to make a compiler for it.
The spec was never released by IBM as far as I know. But I see the Open
Watcom project (actually one guy only - Lawrence Haynes) reverse
engineered the IPFC compiler and rewrote a clean-roo
Marco van de Voort het geskryf:
>
> Or maybe because it cached the search index to disk, like most helpfiles.
As far as I can see, from reading various INF docs is that the IFP
Compiler generates the index and keywords at compile-time and are built
into the single .INF files. Also every single wo
On Tue, September 8, 2009 13:35, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
>> I'm been doing some reading on various help file format - to be used in
>> my applications and possible Lazarus IDE. From my OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 Warp
>> days I remember the INF help was ve
On Tue, September 8, 2009 12:07, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know that the FP IDE (text mode) has support for reading OS/2 INF help
>> files. This is pretty cool and it works with just about any INF file I
>> threw at it. :-)
>>
>> I re
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> I'm been doing some reading on various help file format - to be used in
> my applications and possible Lazarus IDE. From my OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 Warp
> days I remember the INF help was very impressive. Searching was
> lightning quick even on old hardw
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi,
I know that the FP IDE (text mode) has support for reading OS/2 INF help
files. This is pretty cool and it works with just about any INF file I
threw at it. :-)
I read my old VisualAge for C++ for OS/2 docs and it says that to
generate a INF y
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