A better way to read the purebasic help file in linux

[ColeopterusMaximus]

Hi

I though somebody may find this useful.

The integrated help in the Linux version of PureBasic is a bit lacking, I'm sure Fred and co. will improve it eventually.

In the mean time a better way of looking at the help file is to copy the purebasic.chm from the windows version and open it on linux using a program called "kchmviewer"

kchmviewer relies on http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/ and does a great job displaying .chm files from windows on a linux desktop.

It can be installed on ubuntu via:

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apt-get install kchmviewer

kchmviewer uses QT instead of GTK, so the version available from the ubuntu repositories will want to download lots of dependencies related to KDE.

kchmviewer can be compiled without KDE integration if you're inclined to do so, have a look at: http://www.ulduzsoft.com/linux/kchmview ... chmviewer/

Another alternative if you are using virtualbox is to use the bundled copy from virtualbox:

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/usr/lib/virtualbox/kchmviewer purebasic.chm

[ts-soft]

Without dependency to KDE, you can use: xchm or chmsee

[ColeopterusMaximus]

I haven't tried xchm

But chmsee is:

A) Quite poor in comparison to kchmviewer

B) Unmaintained discontinued: http://code.google.com/p/chmsee/

I'm going to give xchm a try.

[ColeopterusMaximus]

xchm is not as nice as kchmviewer but certainly better than chmsee which I think should be ignored because it can not index or do global searches on the chm, it only allows to search in the index, and it is discontinued (will be removed from the distro at some point if nobody picks it up).

So the options are:

A) Install xchm (least effort, minimal dependencies)
B) Install kchmviewer from the repository if you use KDE
C) Compile a copy of kchmviewer without KDE integration (requires a bit more effort but it is worth it)

[luis]

Thanks for the tip about the chm viewer