Folks, I have just installed Lazarus 1.6 via the Ubuntu Repo ('cos its easy) but dont seem to be able to get the context sensitive help feature working. I'd like to know if it should work, in which case I should keep trying (maybe with a bit of help) or plan something else.
I have tried installing the (Ubuntu) Lazarus Doc Package - that just seemed to make heaps of directories in /usr/share/doc containing little more than copyright notices.
I manually installed the chm files and did get them working when looking at source but not the form designer.
I installed docview and the inf files, same result as chm, nothing when using the form designer. So I made a dummy entry under external apps that tells me that $curToken() does not retrieve (eg) an LCL name when in designer mode, seems to return what ever was last used under source editor. I guess its doing the same when dealing with chm viewer.
docview itself seems to work OK, "docview lcl -k TButton" will search lcl and find the TButton entry. However, the only lcl.inf I could find is over six years old and seems more like a template waiting for its content.
Sigh, lots of implied questions there I'm afraid, thoughts ?
David