CHM READER WITH HIGHLIGHTER FOR WINDOWS PRO

A IPF syntax highlighter and navigation scheme is freely available on the EditPad Pro website.

CHM READER WITH HIGHLIGHTER FOR WINDOWS CODE

It has brilliant code template support, live file navigation and customisable syntax highlighter. I use the text editor called EditPad Pro. DocView is also fully cross-platform, tested under Windows (win2k-win10), Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OSX.Īuthoring help for your own applications (not class documentation): You can load multiple INF files at the same time too (runtime concatenation of INF files), supports inline annotations (user comments embedded in the help content), advanced searching with a rating system, and runtime building of Indexes, font and colour customization etc. It is much faster at starting up and loading INF files (near instant). fpdoc can generate IPF output, which you then compile to highly optimised INF help files using the WIPFC compiler - a stand alone console tool included in the fpGUI code repository (available for Linux and Windows).ĭocView is better than any CHM viewer I have come across. The DocView executable is 1MB in size, so doesn't add much to the overall size of a installed project - and has no external dependencies.Īs I mentioned, INF help files are viewable with DocView. So I did some tests and eventually implemented across platform INF help viewer called DocView and used that ever since for all my personal and commercial cross-platform projects. It was brilliant, extremely compact and fast. Is there any way of controlling the size and position of the window that opens when OpenDocument is called?Īre CHM files supported on Linux? Is there a (preferably open source) HTNL Help compiler?Īny other suggestions gratefully received.ĭuring my research of help formats some 10 years ago, I eventually remembered OS/2's help system created by IBM.

CHM READER WITH HIGHLIGHTER FOR WINDOWS PDF

I can simply use OpenDocument to display a pdf file, but the problem with that is the size of the window that opens up - I need the window to be fairly small so the user can see thre application window and the help window. There does not seem to be a PDF-in-form component, which is a pity. I don't need the navigation that CHM/HTML provides, so simple, small, pdf files would do the job. I could use PDF files, in fact that is an attractive option because I can then use Latex to create the files and handle maths formulae really well. So that looks a potential source of trouble in the future. And various comments suggest these components are old and not getting a lot of development/support attention - if they work then that's fine. But I've experimented with that, and I frequently SIGSEG errors on application close. The IpHtml components would seem the obvious choice. I could use CHM with the Lazarus version, but in general I'm trying to get away from any MS dependency, so that eventually I can create a Linux version. The Delphi app uses CHM files created using MS HTML Help Compiler. I'm converting a major, complex, application from Delphi to Lazarus., and now considering help files.

Chm reader with highlighter for windows