Searching the manual from the IDE

[rick.curl]

This is probably a really dumb question- but if I open the manual from within the IDE by going to HELP > DOCUMENTS > POSITRON 8 COMPILER, I can see the manual but I don't see a way to do a search.  It's easy enough to open the PDF in Adobe, but I'm guessing there must be a "search" or "find" function that I'm overlooking.

-Rick

[trastikata]

Ctrl+F doesn't work?


Starngly my IDE opens it in Adobe.

[JohnB]

I could not get Search to work reliably with the PDF viewer control in the IDE.  The code is still there but I have disabled it in the UI because it crashes on large documents.  The way the control is implemented I cannot do an external find as the text you see is actually an image.  If anyone else can suggest a PDF Viewer control for Delphi that doesn't require additional DLLs and is an affordable price I will gladly look into it.  AT present the best thing to do is navigate it via the explorer.

I could offer to add the facility to open it in an external viewer if that looks attractive.

[John Lawton]

Hi John,

YES PLEASE to opening the manual pdf in an external viewer, much better than in the IDE as I can then view my code and the manual side by side to see where I'm going wrong

John

[See_Mos]

I would prefer a link to an external reader because it would save having to zoom in and out as much.

I mentioned previously that I prefer Foxit because it's fast, free and doesn't update every other day like Adobe.

[John Drew]

I agree with SeeMos, an external viewer is better. I can even add a comment to the PDF with Adobe.
The IDE version has been a bit lumpy.
John

[JohnB]

OK  I will add in an option to open in another PDF Viewer. It will just shell out the PDF to whatever PDF viewer is installed.

I have now added a button at the right hand end of the PDF Page viewer which when clicked will shell out to the default PDF viewer.

[top204]

I tend to agree with the use of a third party PDF reader. I have used the Foxit reader for quite a few years now because I was so fed up with Adobe doing updates, even if it was disabled, and it got bigger and bigger and more unreliable.

Foxit is small, fast, and once the dreadful ribbon toolbar has been set back to a "normal" toolbar, it is good to use.