Lazarus Help Files
lazarus / 3-General

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DonBEE · 2010-02-07 05:58

If I put a simple "OK" button on a form and then select that
component, and then tap "F1" key for help... nothing happens!
Are there usable help files?
How do I install them?
This software is impressive but utterly useless without help files.

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theo · 2010-02-07 09:31

F1 works in the Editor.
Place the caret on the word TButton and then press F1.

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MikeWarot · 2010-02-11 19:26

#1. The Help key should work when you're in the form editor as well.
I'll have to figure out how to file a bug report.

#2. How do you get OFFLINE help files to work?  I commute and almost
never have connectivity during my peak programming time.

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skalogryz · 2010-02-12 09:50

Quote from: MikeWarot on February 11, 2010, 08:26:09 pm#2. How do you
get OFFLINE help files to work?  I commute and almost never have
connectivity during my peak programming time. 
.xml help files are converted to local html files, so can be viewed
offline.
should this article help?
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Offline_Documentation

http://wiki.freepascal.org/How_To_Make_Lazarus_Docs

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DonBEE · 2010-04-07 02:47

Quote from: MikeWarot on February 11, 2010, 08:26:09 pm#1. The Help
key should work when you're in the form editor as well. I'll have to
figure out how to file a bug report.

#2. How do you get OFFLINE help files to work?  I commute and almost
never have connectivity during my peak programming time. 

The "Help key".  What key is that?  When I look at my keyboard, I
don't not see any key labeled "Help".  Perhaps you meant some other
key that I do have?

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pyroclastic · 2011-12-05 17:42

Hello all im a delphi user from windows who decided to do the same in
linux that brought me here to lazarus. 

i guess installation went well having no problems lazarus starts no
error mess. but i have atempted to install help files.. thats where i
stuck. please help me out. and please dont send any links  that were
in posts above couse they are useless.  menything are not correct or
they are just outof date.

oke enough about bad news. if out there someone like me who had
problems with it and solved please let me know. step by step guide
would be real nice couse im new to linux.

i have lazarus 9.30.2
OS opensuse 12.1

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Troodon · 2011-12-05 19:16

Quote from: DonBEE on April 07, 2010, 04:47:25 amThe "Help key".  What
key is that?  When I look at my keyboard, I don't not see any key
labeled "Help".  Perhaps you meant some other key that I do have?

Generally, the Help key on Windows is F1. But I doubt this information
will help much in this particular case.