Help Insight in Delphi 2005

Delphi 2005 has a cool new feature called Help Insight. When you move the mouse over a symbol and wait for a second, the IDE grabs the XML documentation for that symbol and dynamically displays the help for it (if available). Currently, it requires the help to be in an XML file; eventually the IDE will grab that information directly from source. If you want, you can customize the look of the Help Insight window. It simply is a mini-web page. Inside the ObjRepos directory, you will find HelpInsight.css and HelpInsight.xsl. By tweaking the .css file, you can easily control the look of the page. By tweaking the .xsl file, you can control the layout of the page. Have fun! I may post some updated looks soon. Keep watching.. -corbin

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Posted by Corbin Dunn on November 22nd, 2004 under Uncategorized |