lazarus/components/chmhelp/README.txt

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lhelp is a program written entirely using FreePascal and the LCL to read .chm help files.
This is a basic HOWTO for integrating lhelp into the Lazarus IDE.
1 ) Start Lazarus
2 ) Install Package:
In the Components Menu choose "Open Package File"
Browse to the lazarus/components/chmhelp/packages/idehelp directory and
open "chmhelppkg.lpk"
3 ) Now click "Install".
4 ) Restart Lazarus(if it didn't automatically)
5 ) Open the lhelp project in lazarus/components/chmhelp/lhelp/lhelp.lpi
Compile lhelp.
6 ) Configure the paths for the lhelp:
From the Tools menu choose "Options"
Change to Help / Help options.
Change to the "Viewers" tab and select "CHM Help Viewer"
HelpEXE:
Leave it empty to use the default: $(LazarusDir)/components/chmhelp/lhelp/lhelp(.exe)
HelpFilesPath:
This is the search path where to search for chm files.
Default is $(LazarusDir)/docs/html;$(LazarusDir)/docs/html/lcl;$(LazarusDir)/docs/chm
You can download the lcl.chm, fcl.chm, rtl.chm from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Documentation/
the lcl.chm, rtl.chm, fcl.chm, prog.chm from
http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/doc-chm.zip
HelpLabel Name and Tag do not need to be altered.
The HelpLabel is the name of the named pipe that lazarus will use to communicate with lhelp.
7 ) Configure the Databases
Choose the Databases tab.
RTLUnits:
Leave it empty to use the default: "rtl.chm://"
FCLUnits:
Leave it empty to use the default: "fcl.chm://"
NOTE if you have only a single lcl-fcl-rtl.chm file then paths become:
"lcl-fcl-rtl.chm://rtl/"
"lcl-fcl-rtl.chm://fcl/"
"lcl-fcl-rtl.chm://lcl/"
Now close this window and check out the integrated help :)
Enjoy