>> A friend assessing the evaluation (possibly an
>> older beta) has stated that the help is appalling
>> (he's new to delphi so has no point of reference
>> to let me know if it's better or worse than D4)...
>> It seems that each incarnation of Delphi takes a
>> few usefull things out of the help for each one
>> they put in... A good help system makes a big
>> difference to juniors being upskilled...
> One possibility with the help files continually getting
> bigger is that they are reaching the internal limits of
> the Windows Help system. I forget what these are
> but I gather that they do exist.
This is a likely cause but surely systems like MSOffice
are at similar scales and yet sport a better help system
(if you ignore Mr. SillyClip)...
> I wonder if D5 supports HTMLHelp.
It would be nice if it does and also nice if it had an equivelent
of JavaDoc to document source code and produce HTML or
Help documents... These types of developments would make
a good progression towards group development and code
validation as well as providing an easy mechanism to writing
demonstration code to train new group members... As it is,
the help has been the only area of complaint, I've been informed
that the IDE is very stable and quite quick even in what I'm
guessing is a beta rather than an evaluation...
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Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
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