Support for (Doxygen) PDF files in the help plugin

[Keyla]

Hi there!
I noticed that you added the man pages support to the help plugin. In http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,6819.0.html I asked about support for PDF docs created with Doxygen. So what do you think, is that possible? And might it possible to support doxygen HTML with all of its flavours?
That would be realy great because a lot of third party libs provide doxygen documentations.

[Ceniza]

Hey!

I think you pasted the wrong link there...

Embedding PDF files would be difficult, specially if you want to keep the plugin multi-platform. You can easily configure the help plugin to launch a PDF reader, though. Launching a web browser to load the HTML documents can be easily configured too.

What should it do? Please give me more details about it.

[Keyla]

Well, the link is correct, have a look at the last point.

Well I know parsing an PDF file and navigating through a layout. But that would be the ultimate feature :-) I doesn't think that it would be easyly to pass an PDF viewer the right postion in the document. Aren't there some crossplatform PDF libraries?
In HTML it is easier, that is true.

Have you some experiences in doxygen usage?

[Ceniza]

Well, xpdf can be compiled on Windows, but only the utilities, not the viewer...

I've added a few Doxygen "comments" here and there, and I've read documentation produced by Doxygen. That's all my experience with Doxygen

[Keyla]

I have only a few experiences, too. Just from reading third party libraries and commenting my own code.
So i think if you combine the features of a pdf lib and of the doxygen pdf export lib it would be easier to analyse the TOC and jump to the right topic isn't it?

[Ceniza]

I'm still not that sure about PDF...

[Keyla]

ATM I have no time for support but it would be a great pleasure for me to help you. Next month I start my highschool so I would have more time. I think we can discuss it then?

[Ceniza]

Sure, no problem.