B4A-HelpViewer - View and search the documentation offline

[Erel]

I'm happy to release the second version of B4A HelpViewer.
This utility allows you to browse and search the documentation and the forum posts from the desktop.

It automatically checks for updated libraries and forum posts during start-up. The libraries manuals are downloaded and stored locally.

The search functionality is built using Lucene.





For now there is no installation step. You should unzip the file and run B4A-HelpViewer.
Note that it should not be located under Program Files as it needs "write permissions".

Download link

Your comments are more than welcomed.

[Rusty]

Very nice, thanks!

[agraham]

I don't know what the criteria for updating the libraries is but it's not working for me. Closing it, updating a library then re-opening it reports "0 files updated" - but they have been!

[klaus]

Very useful.

Unfortunarely, on my 'old' XP computer, the colors are not dispayed as in your post.

Will there be menu item in the IDE to call it directly from there, giving it's folder in the configuration?

Best regards.

[Erel]

I don't know what the criteria for updating the libraries is but it's not working for me. Closing it, updating a library then re-opening it reports "0 files updated" - but they have been!

The zip file includes an index with all the currently most updated files. So nothing gets updated for now.

Unfortunarely, on my 'old' XP computer, the colors are not dispayed as in your post.

I will check it.

Will there be menu item in the IDE to call it directly from there, giving it's folder in the configuration?

I believe that it will be eventually part of the IDE.

[Erel]

Sorry agraham. I haven't read your comment carefully.

This tool checks the online documentation for updates. Not the local XML files.

[agraham]

Originally Posted by Erel

The zip file includes an index with all the currently most updated files. So nothing gets updated for now.

Am I misunderstanding something? Doesn't this use the local xml files?

[Erel]

See post #6...

[moster67]

nice,

sometimes it seems like "search" does not found everything..unless I am blind.

I tried array and I found references of the word array in various libraries although not from keywords which is available online. If I searched array keywords, it would find array but still it wouldn't point me to the description of array and its example (it only showed my the hyperlink "array").

also array as string is an analogue example.

[Erel]

Array is a difficult query as it is very common both as text and as part of method names.