Older kchmviewers (<=4.0) are known to have a problem with the indexes of the chmlib packages (sometimes called extract_chmlib) that allows to unpack To process CHMs in addition to FPC/Lazarus' own: On Linux (and mostly *nix in general) there are at least four packages Measures in XPsp2 and later, sometimes unlocking the CHMs is necessary (see

Windows versions after windows 98 can open CHMs. Problem, not a problem of the format itself The format is sometimes related to security problems, but as far as I haveīeen able to verify, this is more an Internet Explorer viewer application

Some extra tables with references might be generated. To the other, these use a ms-its://file.chm/path/to/htmlfile.html like URL The html in a CHM is basically unmodified except for links from one chm file Single file, there is also a TOC, an Index and fulltext search dictionaries Besides being an archive format optimized to quickly extract a Is also known as HTMLHELP, but note that HTMLHELP2 (and in the future 3) are To do this programatically, FPC 2.4.3+ has this functionality built into theĬHM is an archive format specially made for HTML based help by Microsoft. Apparantly, in some cases Windows thinks the helpfiles are If you use Windows XPsp2 or later, and an helpfile won't view, go into theįile explorer, and bring up the properties of the CHM file. The helpconfiguration is stored, with paths in fp.ini, and might look likeįiles='/fpc/fpcdocs/toc.chm /fpc/fpcdocs/fcl.chm /fpc/fpcdocs/ref.chm /fpc/fpcdocs/rtl.chm /fpc/fpcdocs/prog.chm /fpc/fpcdocs/user.chm'

Wrong at least your help config will be saved) it is safe to restart the IDE before testing. add the files to the textmode IDE using the 'help->files->new' button.Īdd toc.chm first, then add the other files in random order.ģ. extract the archive somewhere, the archive already has an 'help/' pathīuilt in. How to install the CHMs into the textmode IDE.ġ. Note that Lazarus does not load ref.* at this moment, so (CHM) help Copy the chms to docs/html in the Lazarus directory. Not required for viewing (but are only about 1% of the total size) Needed for crosslinking this archive with other CHM files. CHM support based on the great work of Andrew is now also available in the

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