[fpc-pascal] TFPGObjectList error

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Mon Jul 2 11:46:23 CEST 2018



On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Martok wrote:

>> Without a good search feature these are really hard to use. Searching should be the first priority. Can’t we just make a little script to put on the server which searches the original indexed format which the HTML is derived from? It would be so easy to make something that’s cheap but at least works.
>
> Un4seen have a pretty good documentation browser:
> http://www.un4seen.com/doc/
>
> From what it looks like, this is built on the CHM format files? If one could
> figure out what they use, maybe that would be a step in the right direction?

The CHM manual generation is as problematic as the indexing itself. 
And the CHM search index is generated by Windows on first use, as far as I know.

> Am 01.07.2018 um 10:03 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>> Can you explain what you think is wrong with or missing in the official documentation ?
>> (apart from a search mechanism)
> Some sort of interlinking between the manuals would be nice (see how it works
> for the different BASS libraries, for example). I have still not figured out
> where exactly the dividing line between the Reference and Programmer's Guide is,

You must make a distinction between the unit reference and the language
reference/programmer's guide.

The unit references are fully interlinked. The programmer's guide and
language reference are 2 separate documents which are indeed not 
interlinked. They never were designed to be interlinked:
The programmer's guide contains advanced topics, which the beginning
programmer does not need at all.

Michael.


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