Re: [Lazarus] WebAssembly

2016-11-11 Thread Michael Schnell via Lazarus
On 11.11.2016 02:26, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: So it is not yet clear when it will be ready and how the end product will work on the various browsers. Mozilla promises "March 2017". Any information on other brands ? I only found "Microsoft says it is close to shipping the browser prev

Re: [Lazarus] WebAssembly

2016-11-11 Thread Michael Schnell via Lazarus
On 11.11.2016 01:33, Lars via Lazarus wrote: Maybe best to start from scratch. Regarding the Lazarus paradigm "write once, compile and run everywhere", IMHO not a good idea. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://li

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-11-11 00:53, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > I do appreciate simple documentation without eye > candy crap. :) Just take a look at Apple's OSX built-in help (not the online content). It is minimalist and mostly text - with a hint of good typography. It works! Microsoft Windows 7 does very simil

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-11-11 00:47, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > But, could one compile fpc code to javaapplet jvm bytecode? FPC 3.x can compile to Java Bytecode, but I've never actually tried it myself. Regards, Graeme -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazar

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-11-11 01:11, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > port alternative to port 80 which may be blocked by firewall. That I would > want to avoid, as it's just another hassle. You can always use any other port >1024 for that. I've implemented a commercial application that works mostly online, but we wante

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread wkitty42--- via Lazarus
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

Re: [Lazarus] WebAssembly

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 11, 2016 2:23 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > On 11.11.2016 01:33, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> Maybe best to start from scratch. >> > Regarding the Lazarus paradigm "write once, compile and run everywhere", > IMHO not a good idea. The issue is you are working in a sandbo

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 11, 2016 3:54 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-11 00:53, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> I do appreciate simple documentation without eye >> candy crap. > > :) Just take a look at Apple's OSX built-in help (not the online > content). It is minimalist and mostly t

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 11, 2016 4:03 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-11 01:11, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> port alternative to port 80 which may be blocked by firewall. That I >> would want to avoid, as it's just another hassle. > > You can always use any other port >1024 for that.

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-11-11 22:46, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > Would the current help systems be even capable of looking like that? Must > be just a few div boxes. Really simple, interesting color shades. No > fancy garbage, just simple boxes of text. I don't know how much CSS the HTML component in LHelp suppor

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
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

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Lars via Lazarus
On Fri, November 11, 2016 4:23 pm, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2016-11-11 22:46, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> Would the current help systems be even capable of looking like that? >> Must >> be just a few div boxes. Really simple, interesting color shades. No >> fancy garbage, just si

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-11-11 23:09, Lars via Lazarus wrote: >> You can always use any other port >1024 for that. > > No issues with default firewalls? Last thing I want, is a customer having > to futz around with router firewall, windows firewall, etc. It was 4 years ago, but as far as I remember, we didn't ha

Re: [Lazarus] Help System with Chromium Embedded component

2016-11-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-11-11 23:39, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > Would be interesting if there was a firefox/chrome plugin that converted a > website to be all black and white to help people, or maybe grayscale. But > good point. Opera 12.x (and earlier) had that built in. Newer versions of Opera (based on Chrome)