Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Hans-Peter Diettrich Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc Subject: Re: Delphi documentation Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:02:55 +0200 Lines: 50 Message-ID: <9vlnkvFtp2U1@mid.individual.net> References: <31792446.815.1334737104243.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbpp14> <9v7rinF5lqU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net G0+ONenT+o9IkV6OznQnyg3areQlA2HR32nuKjYr/rXSUf9Bay Cancel-Lock: sha1:AB2hGEEJyFBaC+5ocvPaRNc5NL8= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc:267 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