[fpc-pascal] How create a full text search with TChmWriter?

[Andrew Haines]

On 02/21/2012 03:18 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:59:18 -0500
> Andrew Haines<AndrewD207 at aol.com>  wrote:
>
>>
>> 30% bigger than the size of the uncompressed html files?!
> Yes.

does lazarus/docs/html/build_lcl_docs --outfmt chm work for you?
I get a 8mb lcl.chm file. if --outfmt html then the lcl folder has 74mb 
of html files.

Your chm file should not be bigger than the the uncompressed files 
unless you are writing only
a couple of tiny html files.


>
> I attached the example.chm file that I made a couple of minutes ago
> using chmmaker with the project in the example subfolder. Can you see if
> it works for you? I opened it in lhelp and the toc, index and search
> were all working.
> Yes, that has a search. And it works.
> I wonder, what you are doing different.
>
>
>

You said in another mail that you are writing the html files from 
memory. (You must have a good memory! ;) I guess then you are using 
AddStreamToArchive. FullTextSearch must be set before this is called 
because the files are scanned as you add them. Also AddStreamToArchive 
has a default parameter Compress: Boolean, are you setting this to false?

PostAddStreamToArchive should only be used inside code called from the 
OnLastFile callback.

Can you send me the non working example.chm?

Thanks


Andrew