I couldn't make work Lazarus Online Help on Ubuntu 9.10. The first show stopper is the inability to launch an web browser from Lazarus. The Ubuntu default FireFox is not recognized in the browser search code, and a manual fix in Environment Options didn't work. The invoked shell script (why that?) doesn't launch FireFox.

Next comes the inability to configure the URLs. I found the HTML files installed in /usr/share/..., but even when I set the path to this directory, I get an error like "StartPage could not find /usr/lib/.../index.html". Obviously my settings are *ignored* :-(

Furthermore the URLs should be preconfigured, what should be easy for the default web resources. It would be okay if these are hard coded somewhere, so that the Options only reflect local copies - please clarify! Eventually the (advanced) user should have a chance to select help from local or remote resources, which are updated independently from each other.

DoDi

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote

I couldn't make work Lazarus Online Help on Ubuntu 9.10.

I almost always have problems setting up Lazarus help.

I suggest to include tooltips that explain and/or give examples on what should be put in the edit boxes. For example, what do autoregister and tag do?

I had tried as well to use chm help, but it seems to be broken for the time being.

Yeah, this is one thing that needs to get streamlined. I always give up before following all the tips and instructions around. I'll try to spend some time on it... Any other volunteers? ;-)

Best regards,
Fl?vio

Good idea! Seems to be worth an bug report.

DoDi