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Re: Delphi documentation

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Sven P schrieb:
> Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>
>> Up to D7, at least, you can open the help on TObject or any other class. 
> 
> So also you suggest to use Help from a Delphi 7 version that was 
> released in 2002.

No, I only cannot know which Delphi version you are using, and what may 
have changed in between.

> That Help System is very familiar to us, and yes, it works fine. All our 
> Delphi works and future developments have been frozen to D7 level.

That's my favorite version, too, in detail for the IDE. I only miss 
foldable blocks in the editor windows.

> My colleague tried to install Delphi 2010 XE version a couple of years 
> back. That was the first Delphi version that we could not get to work. 
> Even a simple one Button Form raised an error, (I do not remember what 
> it was) and did not compile.
> 
> With that error text my colleague asked tips from Embarcadero Forums. 
> There were tens, and tens of similar unanswered First Time Installation 
> problems and questions at that time.  Also we never got an answer.
> After 3 months we uninstalled the non working Delphi XE version.

I installed XE last year, and had no serious problems with it. I didn't 
perform serious coding, though, only explored the Unicode changes in a 
couple of test projects. Most annoying was the new IDE, with a couple of 
flaws that will be fixed only in newer versions, if at all.

> I wonder what is actually the situation with Help systems with all the 
> Delphi releases between 2003-2012?

The first few years the new help system came with not much content, this 
improved over time. I heard that sometimes relicts from Delphi.NET can 
appear, or from C++Builder...

> When sometime, years back I visited Embarcadero newsgroups I saw that 
> the were not quite satisfied with the HTML/CHM based Delphi Help systems.
> But hey, now there has a full decade gone. Are all, even the newest 
> Delphi Help systems really still unusable?
>
> This is no place of a laughter for a Delphi developer. It all just 
> sounds very sad.

Try a current (demo?) version, and see yourself.

DoDi

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Delphi documentation ts.borisova3@gmail.com - 2012-04-18 01:18 -0700
  Re: Delphi documentation Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2012-04-18 15:31 +0200
    Re: Delphi documentation ts.borisova3@gmail.com - 2012-04-18 13:35 -0700
    Re: Delphi documentation Sven P <svenp@non.commercial.sv.com> - 2012-04-23 10:15 +0200
      Re: Delphi documentation Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2012-04-23 09:22 +0000
      Re: Delphi documentation Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2012-04-23 22:02 +0200
        Re: Delphi documentation Sven P <svenp@non.commercial.sv.com> - 2012-04-24 11:09 +0200
  Re: Delphi documentation "Ph. B." <philippe_NO_SPAM_.boucault@voila.fr> - 2012-04-18 16:50 +0200
    Re: Delphi documentation ts.borisova3@gmail.com - 2012-04-18 13:35 -0700
      Re: Delphi documentation "Ano" <aonye55344@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-22 09:13 -0400

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