[DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc

[David Brennan]

Yes... but we are all experienced Delphi developers who only need to look
things up occasionally. Furthermore the sorts of things we want to look up
are often beyond the normal levels of a help file.

However we have new programmers coming on every so often and they rely on
the help file to learn the VCL classes/functions. The Delphi 5 help file is
actually pretty good at this sort of stuff. It sounds like the Delphi 2007
file is pitiful. I'm REALLY not looking forward to telling new employees
that their IDE doesn't have any useful help on it and they should run the
Delphi 7 version...

This isn't a situation Codegear should be happy with. I don't know the full
extent of the problem as I don't use Delphi 2005-2007 but if it is bad as
people say then it is disgraceful.

All in my opinion of course.

Cheers,
David.



-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Tim Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2007 2:01 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc

:-)
Me too I must confess. (and Google groups as well of course)

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Richard Vowles
Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:57 AM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc

Steve Peacocke wrote:
> The two main issue that I have with D2007 is the help system, and the
> PageControl issue.
>
> The Help system - the only way I can live with D2007 is to have a D7
> help file on the computer and refer to that help instead of pressing
> F1. A pain? Yes. Stops me working with D2007? No.
>
>
>   
I use Google. It is *way* better than anything else I have found.


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