[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] DocView and FPC documentation release

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 19:09:37 CEST 2010


On 26 August 2010 18:47, Tomas Hajny  wrote:
> Any idea why is your Win32 binary 100 kB (12%) larger than the one I
> compiled two days ago from your fpGui7.0 sources available in SourceForge?
> I assume you haven't made any changes in the sources in between, have you?

There has been 137 commits already since the fpGUI 0.7 release - many
of them related to DocView improvements - which includes a new form
and some extra components. Not sure why the 12% size change though -
that seems a bit much. Maybe I didn't have the same compiler version
or compiler settings as you. Could you let me know what compiler
version and settings you used to compile DocView?


> I tried opening some OS/2 INF files (in particular the "pascalized"
> version of the IBM OS/2 Control Program Reference/CPREF distributed with

A known problem. IBM is just about the only people I know that used
*all* the features the INF file format supports. The major one being
controlling multiple help windows inside VIEW. It's those multiple
windows that bug me and many other OS/2 users)over the years. Not all
INF help files managed window placement, size etc. very well. For this
reason I decided to let DocView only have one view area - after all,
the reason I created DocView is for newers applications - not really
help files from 15 years ago.  :-)
Saying that, with IBM's IPFC20.INF and some other OS/2 help files I
could manage to get to some of those hidden topics via the Index (set
index to Full in "Settings - Options - General") or the Search tab.

> Virtual Pascal v1.0) and DocView displayed empty pages for just any of the
> Control Program APIs listed in the Contents pane. IBM's XVIEW (Win16

Could you maybe email me in private one of those INF files - I'll see
if I can make DocView work with them a little better. My preferred
email is:  graemeg at gmail dot com

Many thanks,
  - Graeme -


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