No help menu item
Original Reporter info from Mantis: BigChimp
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Reporter name: Reinier Olislagers
Original Reporter info from Mantis: BigChimp
- Reporter name: Reinier Olislagers
Description:
Open Help menu.
Expected behaviour: Help menu item should be available that shows offline help
Actual behaviour: only Online Help menu item available
Explanation: context-sensitive offline help is built into Lazarus (F1).
- Not having a general offline help menu is inconsistent.
- It may also be confusing as people may not realise there actually is context-sensitive help.
Suggested solution: add Help menu item above the Online Help menu item.
This item should open one of the following (in decreasing order of preference):
- The Table of Contents (toc.chm) distributed with offline help
- All known CHM help files so the user can start browsing help (this would depend on bug 22110)
- Any/the first CHM help file so at least lhelp is started and the user can open chm files by himself. Not very desirable.
Additional information:
An additional suggestion could be to map the F1 key to the action used in the Help menu item if no context-sensitive help is found, which is the way many other applications work.
Mantis conversion info:
- Mantis ID: 23411
- OS: Windows
- OS Build: Vista
- Build: r39341
- Platform: Windows x64
- Version: 1.1 (SVN)
- Fixed in revision: 40593 (#1b37181d)