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color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Paul A
Norman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 12 December 2007 12:10 a.m.<BR><B>To:</B> NZ
Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<BR><B>Subject:</B> [DUG] Delphi 205+
IDE's advantage in generating help for projects<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Dear NZ group,</DIV>
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<DIV>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 ( <A href="http://delphi.about.com">http://<SPAN class=a><FONT
size=2><FONT color=#008000><B>delphi</B>.about.com</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A>, Jan
Verhoeven <A
href="http://www.jansfreeware.com/articles/delphiresource.html">http://www.jansfreeware.com/articles/delphiresource.html</A>,
Peter D Johnson, Llanarth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK <A
href="http://www.delphidabbler.com/articles?article=10">http://www.delphidabbler.com/articles?article=10</A>
) </DIV>
<DIV>I ended up with the following approach which so far is proving very robust.
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<DIV>And shared here in case any one is looking for a low key and straight
forward approach. </DIV>
<DIV>I would appreciate any feedback or improvements please.</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV>(e.g. {$R 'html.res' 'html.rc'} )</DIV></DIV>
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