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offline Wiki Help

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Michael Schnell

(Moving this discussion out of the inappropriate " Lazarus 1.0 is branched" topic.)

Seemingly there are efforts to introduce an "offline Wiki" type of offline help, thus providing a maybe more versatile alternative are an addition to the currently available variants such as the CHM help and the DocView add-on.

I think this is a very interesting move.

Is it easy to get and install a "standard" local Wiki reader ? Or is somebody creating one in Pascal code ?

It would be great to have a wiki page about this.

I'd like to see comments about this issue from those who drove the recent huge discussion on offline help (Graeme, DoDi, Mattias, Sven, Marco, Michael vC...)

-Michael

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Martin hat am 4. April 2012 um 13:43 geschrieben: > On 04/04/2012 11:26, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > There is no 1:1 mapping between word and wiki page. > > > > At the moment there are two searches for the offline wiki pages. Both > > have their pros and cons. > > > > > > There are mappings between some IDE windows and wiki though Yes. But he asked about F1 on a word, which I guess is about a word in the source editor. When the offline wiki works, I will check what needs to be done in the IDE to switch. Mattias

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Mattias Gaertner
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(Moving this discussion out of the inappropriate " Lazarus 1.0 is branched" topic.) Seemingly there are efforts to introduce an "offline Wiki" type of offline help, thus providing a maybe more versatile alternative are an addition to the currently available variants such as the CHM help and the DocView add-on. I think this is a very interesting move. Is it easy to get and install a "standard" local Wiki reader ? Or is somebody creating one in Pascal code ?

All readers are pascal code.

It would be great to have a wiki page about this.

All are currently only in proof of concept phase.
We have to find someone to work on this.

I'd like to see comments about this issue from those who drove the recent huge discussion on offline help (Graeme, DoDi, Mattias, Sven, Marco, Michael vC...)

Mattias

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Michael Schnell
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Mattias Gaertner wrote
All readers are pascal code.

Great, but seems like a lot of work....

This would enable using the IDE's help viewer interface to launch it. Great again.

Maybe this enables seamlessly using the online and offline Wiki content. Another "Great" added.

Obviously adding a kind of Keywords to the Wiki content would enable F1-search for words in the Editor and keywords "translated" Types from variable/implementation names.

Obviously it's a lot easier to automatically translate FPDoc content to Wiki than vice-versa.

Obviously this would make common users more likely to be help contributors.

-Michael

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