[DUG] Delphi 205+ IDE's advantage in generating help for projects

[Conor Boyd]

Very nice Paul, thanks for sharing.  I've used .RC files before to
include other things as resources in executables, but what you've shared
looks like a great use for it.

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From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Paul A Norman
Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2007 12:10 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Delphi 205+ IDE's advantage in generating help for
projects


Dear NZ group,
 
For quite a while I looked for a decent and easy help system to
integerate into Delphi projects, and there was over the years a bit of
talk on the whole thing. From many of the ideas expressed in the past in
this group, and a some help from Google ( http://delphi.about.com
<http://delphi.about.com> , Jan Verhoeven
http://www.jansfreeware.com/articles/delphiresource.html, Peter D
Johnson, Llanarth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
http://www.delphidabbler.com/articles?article=10 ) 
I ended up with the following approach which so far is proving very
robust. 
And shared here in case any one is looking for a low key and straight
forward approach. 
I would appreciate any feedback or improvements please.
 
>From at least Delphi 2005 (if not D7?) forward there is an integration
in the IDE that allows you to create a .RC file and include it in the
project so that the resulting RES file compiles into the executible
automatically. Well that will not be news to many, but this gives the
opening to easily build html type help directly into a project with a
minumin of effort. 
(e.g. {$R 'html.res' 'html.rc'}  )


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