--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "IBO Support List" <supportlist@...> wrote:

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> I'm sorry I have not offered any help on this issue. Frankly, I relied upon
> the help of others just to get as far as I did. I am watching with interest
> to see what progress you can make. I was under the impression it wouldn't be
> possible to have help integrated with the later versions of Delphi.
>
> Can anyone else jump in here and lend us a hand?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason

Integrating it with DXE2 would be great. However, I'd first just like to have plain access to the help. I have winhl32.exe installed and can access the .hlp files for D7 on this system, but I'm getting an error that appears to be, according to MS KB, for issues on older intranets:

"Cannot display this help file. Try opening the help file again, and if you still get this message, copy the help file to a different drive, and try again."

I've tried from D:\ and from C:\

Barry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of ifitsx
> Sent: 19 January 2012 08:06 PM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBO] Re: Need help with manual install of various IBO help files
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> --- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "ifitsx" <bmcken@> wrote:
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> > IBO Help\BlobCompare.dll
> > BlobCompare.so
> > fts.cnt
> > FTS.HLP
> > IB_RPL.cnt
> > IB_RPL.HLP
> > RPL_HelpContextIDs.rtf
> > IBO Help\IBO46_CompHelp\IB_Objects_4_6.cnt
> > IB_OBJECTS_4_6.HLP
> > IBO Help\IBO46_CompHelp\HelpBrowser\IB_Objects_4_6.t2h
> > Time2HelpBrowser.exe
> > IBO Help\IBO46_CompHelp\ide_install\edit_delphi7.ohc
> > edit_delphi7.ohi
> > edit_delphi7.ohl
> > edit_delphi7.ohx
> > IB_Objects_4_6.als
> > IB_Objects_4_6.cnt
> > IB_Objects_4_6.toc
> > readme.txt
> >
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> I'm not making any progress with accessing IBO Help.
>
> I decided to at least move all of the above over to C:\ and now have the
> folder C:\IBO Help with all of the above installed there.
>
> I HAVE the winhlp32.exe installed and can access my D7 help ok.
>
> However, when I click on any of the IBO related help files I'm getting an
> error that seems to be primarily focused on intranet issues, which I'm not,
> unless Win7 x64/sp1 with broadband access is implicitly an 'intranet':
>
> "Cannot display this help file. Try opening the help file again, and if you
> still get this message, copy the help file to a different drive, and try
> again."
>
> According to this ms kb file,
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607#knownissueupdate
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> that error is only addressed to the following issue, at least on that kb
> page:
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> "
> By default, you cannot use WinHlp32.exe to access .hlp files that are stored
> on intranet sites. If you try to open a remote file, you will receive the
> following error message: <as above>"
>
> ...which doesn't appear to apply to my case, and when I look at the Group
> Policy KBs on that, they only mention older server versions of Windows.
>
> And giving the IBO related help files more permissions doesn't change the
> error.
>
> One anomaly that comes to mind is that when I downloaded the winhlp32.exe,
> it wouldn't install: it kept complaining that it wasn't the version for my
> system, which is the 64-bit. So, I tried the 32-bit and the same error
> message.
>
> Then I tried allowing the install direct from the download and it installed
> ok, and I went on to access my D7 help.
>
> Barry
>