[DUG] Moved to D2007 OK - Help system busted

Stephen Barker Steve at webdata.co.nz
Fri May 4 09:21:42 NZST 2007 

I've got the help working right now in d2007, but occasionally it doesn't.
It just comes up with some message like 'not in index' or similar.

We had a brief problem with a DBISAM release which was fixed straight away,
see below. It might be worth you trying to re-register the help in a similar
fashion.

Overall I'm happy with D2007 so far, and have done 2 new projects in it: 1
small and 1 med, and I'll be moving some legacy apps over soon, once I've
sorted all the components.

Steve


DBISAM message follows:
-----------------------
There was an issue with the original 4.25 Build 4 installations for Delphi
2007 that would cause the Delphi 2007 help to be completely replaced with
the DBISAM 4 help in the IDE.

We have uploaded new DBISAM 4 installations today that resolve the issue
with Delphi 2007. Use the following steps to correct the issue with the help
files:

1) Uninstall the current version of DBISAM that you have installed.
2) Run the following commands:

<Delphi 2007 Installation Dir>\Help\Doc\h2reg -u cmdfile=h2reg.ini

<Delphi 2007 Installation Dir>\Help\Doc\h2reg -r cmdfile=h2reg.ini

3) Install the new DBISAM installation that you downloaded today or later.
The proper date and time stamp on the latest installations for Delphi 2007
will be:

Date of 2007-04-14 with a time of 1:56 PM or later

My apologies for the problems.

-- 
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Coulter [mailto:vss at vss.co.nz] 
> Sent: Friday, 4 May 2007 7:31 a.m.
> To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; 'NZ Borland Developers Group - 
> Delphi List'
> Subject: RE: [DUG] Moved to D2007 OK - Help system busted
> 
> I made the mistake of selecting web based help or soemthing 
> when I got prompted for what help system I wanted to use.
> DON'T DO THIS !!!  Its like it searches some bizare website 
> and its totally useless.
> Yesterday I was searching on VarType.....got VB help !!! What 
> the HELL is that about??
>  There is also this search tab. You click on that, and there 
> is an option for selecting the language to search.....Delphi 
> dosnt even show in the list
> !!!   I am completely DUMBFOUNDED about this help.
> And now, I cant even see how to change it to a different 
> help, like may be the real help that actually looks for 
> Delphi things not VB ot C# etc.
> I am liking D2k7, but there are some STRANGE things happening 
> at times !
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz 
> [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird
> Sent: 4 May 2007 02:16
> To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> Subject: [DUG] Moved to D2007 OK - Help system busted
> 
> -migrating from D2006
> -All pretty smooth so far - IDE looks more refined and slick 
> and faster -Installing my extra components took 11 minutes 
> (the joys of using most only standard VCL) -Built a couple of 
> test programs then a good size one.  All worked fine.
> -Entire tests and setting IDE options etc same as BDS2006 
> took under 2 hours -Looks like I will be using D2007 for 
> production from now on.
> 
> Only hiccups were:
> -Installing .net v2 takes longer than installing D2007.
>  Apparently most of the disk space is unneeded .net stuff 
> including help see 
> http://memyselfanddelphi.blogspot.com/2007/04/delphi-2007-putt
> ing-fat-cow-on
> -diet_16.html
> I haven't dared delete any of it yet... ;)
> 
> -Had to realise installing Rave reports was a separate install option
> 
> -Only problem so far:
> Help system is completely broken.
> No help anywhere shows - not for components, not for 
> Tools/Options - nowhere.
> Tried a modify install, checked help was set to be on disk, 
> didn't fix it.
> 
> Only thing I did that was non standard was I installed the 
> D2007/RAD not to C:\Program Files But to D:\BigPrograms As I 
> prefer to keep larger stuff off the C Drive.
> Has this confused the system so it can't find help files?
> .Net stuff was installed to the default location.
> 
> Hey I can always add the D5 Help to the tools menu again  ;)
> 
> In the famous words some may remember this fabled D2007 Help 
> is like your proverbial Norwegian Blue Parrot.
> "Its not dead - its just sleeping!"
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions????
> 
> Errors are like:
> 
> The Menu Help option brings up the Windows Document explorer, 
> but nothing at all in the index.
> Language options filters do not show Delphi....there are all 
> the .net language choices (C# C++ etc), but no help for them either.
> 
> Pressing F1 on a component brings up
> 
> Unable to interpret specified HxC file
> 
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> John
> 
> 
> 
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