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== General tab ==
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[[File:IDE-options-help.png|thumb|600px|IDE Options - Help - Help Options]]
Todo
 
== Viewers tab ==
 
Todo
 
== Databases tab ==
 
  
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<noinclude>{{IDE Window: Help Options}}<!--- This page may be used as template in other pages ---></noinclude>
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<br />''(Help for this tab should be presented in hints, because when nothing is yet configured...)''
  
FPC 2.0.0 lazarus 0.9.8 2005-05-26
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===Help Options===
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;HTML browser:
  
fpc-lazarus-doc-html-200505026.tar.bz2
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;CHM Help viewer: CHM help should be preconfigured if you installed Lazarus via an installer. See [[Installing Help in_the IDE#Installing CHM help (Lazarus 1.0 and later)|details on downloading/checking/configuring CHM help]].
from [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=92177&package_id=138755 SourceForge]
 
  
'''Release notes''':
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===Databases===
This file contains the tarred and bzip2ed html documents used for the context sensitive help.
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Whenever the help is invoked, databases will be scanned  for help information
 
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;RTLUnits:
First, extract this file. You now have two subdirectories: rtl and lcl. For the remainder this instruction assumes you have unzipped the html documents in the c:\lazarus\docs\doc-html. In what follows, adjust the path according to your installation.
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;FCLUnits:
 
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;Free Pascal Compiler Messages:
In lazarus, go to Help -> Configure Help -> Databases tab.
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;LazUtilsUnits:
 
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;FPC Language Reference:
Select RTLUnits in the left pane and browse to c:\lazarus\docs\doc-html\rtl in the BaseURL property.
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;LCL - Lazarus component library:
 
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;Free Pascal Compiler Directives:
The BaseURL property contains now: 'file://c:/lazarus/docs/doc-html/rtl'. The URL on a *nix might look like: 'file:///home/myhome/lazarus/docs/doc-html/rtl'.
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;External help:
 
 
Similarly change the BaseURL for the LCLUnits help databases by replacing rtl by lcl in the url.
 

Latest revision as of 19:44, 13 July 2020

IDE Options - Help - Help Options

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(Help for this tab should be presented in hints, because when nothing is yet configured...)

Help Options

HTML browser
CHM Help viewer
CHM help should be preconfigured if you installed Lazarus via an installer. See details on downloading/checking/configuring CHM help.

Databases

Whenever the help is invoked, databases will be scanned for help information

RTLUnits
FCLUnits
Free Pascal Compiler Messages
LazUtilsUnits
FPC Language Reference
LCL - Lazarus component library
Free Pascal Compiler Directives
External help