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Lazarus trunk+FPC trunk Windows - experiences with help
« on: July 28, 2014, 12:55:50 pm »
Hi all,
(Previously posted on the Lazarus list)

I'm getting a lot of errors trying to get context-sensitive help with lhelp.
(in my patched copy of Lazarus; see second patch in
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24743)
Lhelp will start up but give "Cannot handle this type of subcontent:
"file://" for url: file://
It looks like the actual file name of the chm file is not being received
by lhelp.

Normally I would always blame the compiler and/or RTL/FCL for my own or other people's incorrect code  but I'm starting to suspect recent fixes in simpleipc may have messed things up.

I'm going to have a look at that but first wanted to know whether other people with the config listed in the subject have the same issues (or whether it's PEBKAC/machine dependent).

Alternatively, review and correction of the patch in
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24743
would be very welcome, too.

Finally, I would be grateful if somebody could indicate if my patch
works for FPC trunk+Lazarus trunk?

Thanks
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Re: Lazarus trunk+FPC trunk Windows - experiences with help
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2014, 01:13:48 pm »
Hello!

Here: Windows XP Lazarus-trunk and fpc 2.7.1, I have the same issue.

With Windows XP, Lazarus-Trunk and fpc 2.6 the help works perfect.
Debian/Sparky Linux
OS: Windows XP
Lazarus: with fpcupdeluxe

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Re: Lazarus trunk+FPC trunk Windows - experiences with help
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2014, 02:12:20 pm »
I have the same problem. Multiple such screens even.

It seems that that patch is already committed by Juha?

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Re: Lazarus trunk+FPC trunk Windows - experiences with help
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2014, 02:23:49 pm »
No it was reverted. But it doesn't change the erroneous behaviour.
 
At least not for me.
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Re: Lazarus trunk+FPC trunk Windows - experiences with help
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2014, 02:52:38 pm »
It's FPC's r27762 related to bugreport http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26007. If I revert that it works again.

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Re: Lazarus trunk+FPC trunk Windows - experiences with help
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2014, 03:13:24 pm »
Thank you - that's what I feared...
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Re: Lazarus trunk+FPC trunk Windows - experiences with help
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2014, 04:31:18 pm »
It's FPC's r27762 related to bugreport http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26007. If I revert that it works again.
Confirmed - reverting r27762, applying the lazhelpnew.diff patch in Lazarus bug report http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24743, deleting lhelp.exe, rebuilding Lazarus works.

Lhelp comes up and shows the help as it should.
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