English CHMs (HTMLHelp) for RAD Studio 2007 posted
See RAD Studio Delphi 2007 Help CHM Files or RAD Studio C++Builder 2007 Help CHM Files for HTMLHelp versions of the current English Help. These contain some bugfixes from June 1 to Aug 3, including "restoration" of many files for namespaces such as Classes.
I’m curious to know if the CHM versions are helpful. In my experience they are easier to use and faster than the PDF versions, which makes sense because the Help isn’t really designed to be a "book".
The drawback of the CHM version versus the MSHelp2 version is that it doesn’t automatically include the Microsoft information. However for some customers that is a plus!
Enjoy, -Dee
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Posted by Dee Elling on August 7th, 2007 under Uncategorized |
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August 7th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I’ll see if I can integrate these into the IDE. I’ve been waiting on this for ages.
Thank you.
August 8th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Fantastic, thank you.
dexplore is driving me nuts
August 8th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Great Job! Far better than the 10000+60000 page Pdf files.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Can’t download:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +146
August 8th, 2007 at 6:41 am
ahh wierd: works in regular browser, gives exception in d2007 internal browser
August 8th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Great!!
Thank you very much
Best Regards
August 9th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Can’t download:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +146
August 13th, 2007 at 4:12 am
This is an improvement. But I can’t say I am completely satisfied.
Take a look at the StrUtils unit docs. Lots of functions missing from the documentation still.
Keep working on it.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
aarrghh. I only have a dialup connection and this download wont resume.Tried 4 times so far but its so slow i lose my connection before it completes..How about putting it on a server that will resume.
August 16th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Where are the good examples? Code examples are paramount!
August 24th, 2007 at 6:39 am
If you went back to CHM based help for Highlander, you could drop the DOT NET SDK install (but not the DOT NET RUNTIME installer) for WIN32-DELPHI ide personality users, right? That would be great. A dot-net free IDE once again. If people want the MSDN help, let them friggin install MSDN help. I don’t want it.
In fact, I’d prefer that Win32 API help be accessible SEPERATELY. Add some other pull down menu items in the help for opening up a CHM file that documents Win32 APIs. Keep it all separate. Keep IDE-TOOLS help and API-PROGRAMMING-HELP separate. Context sensitive help while working in the editor, should be focused on the language core, the compiler, and the class libraries. Only when I have a compiler settings dialog box open should I be able to get at compiler settings help.
A proper implementation of Help Contexts, filtering, and completely separate "help namespaces" would be great.
Warren
August 26th, 2007 at 12:48 am
ok,finally got it..looks good..much faster than built-in help. thanks
August 30th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
It’s very beautiful , Thank you for you did .
February 18th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
What is going on? First we receive a crappy help system in all versions post D7 and now we are getting spammed on DelphiFeeds with reposts of all this help talk-fest. Get back to fixing the help…and do it properly this time…
February 18th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Thank you very, very much. I need the Pascal+RTL+VCL help topics much more often than the Win32 topics. I never need the additional gigabytes of Microsoft docs. So this will allow me to get to the needed content much faster. No more long waits on loading, no more setting the index and search box filters, no more browsing through unwanted topics. Thank you indeed.