Subject RE: [IBO]Rad Studio D2007 help files?
Author Paul Hope
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Helen wrote...

> From my own research, Codegear might have put their money on
> a 3-legged horse. MSHelp2 isn't supported in Vista (only
> HTML help there...CHM). They even developed a "MSHelp3"
> known as "AP" during Vista development but dropped it in
> favour of CHM.
>

Unfortunately, unless CodeGear provide an update which changes to chm then
we are stuck with it.

> Help systems built with MSHelp2 are .NET "collections". To
> compile an integrated help system, all files have to be part
> of the same collection. There's no public way to "plug in" a
> separate collection into an existing one. It might be that
> Codegear has some deal with Microsoft to enable it within the
> RAD Studio environment. There doesn't appear to be any
> public comment from Codegear at all regarding this - possibly
> it's available only if you own the RAD Studio product.
>

D2007 comes with H2Reg.exe which allows addition files to be integrated, I
appear to have successfully installed Report Builder HxS/I help files with
this.

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Regards
Paul