Delphi 2007 help integration

Question

I moved to Delphi 2007 in early 2008. It took a long time to migrate all my tools and components, and I'm not in a hurry to do that again. I moved from Delphi 6. (Bought D2006, but didn't use it much, due to the migration headaches).

The MSDN / F1 help "integration" though, continues to drive me nuts pretty regularly. I access the D6 help files, and individual vendor help files as needed, but it sure isn't nearly as useful as the old put-your-cursor-on-a-method, click F1 -> You get something useful of the older help approach, especially with all vendor files integrated in.

It appears I may be very late to the party, but apparently I wasn't alone in this opinion: http://blogs.embarcadero.com/deeelling/2007/08/21/38290

I see now that Embarcadero lets you download CHM files for Delphi 2007. Is their any way to fully integrate them, and get rid of that useless MSDN monstrosity entirely?

Answer 1

This does not answer your question (I'm eagerly waiting for a good answer, myself), but this tool does make the default help a little faster. So you can get useless results in a reasonable time :)

Answer 2

Not that I know of, sorry. I am just really curious how (and whether) you managed to resolve this. Having used Delphi 3/4/5/6/07/08/09 I must admit they done gone wrong with the MSDN "monstrosity" (as you call it) when they introduced it somewhere along the way. That was the one change I definitely did not enjoy.

Nowadays you're probably better off (legally) "obtaining" some PDF-books, as these can be searched through more easily than efficiently than Delphi help. Good luck with your new Delphi! :)

Answer 3

Here's a couple:

Delphi 7 help for BDS expert http://codecentral.embarcadero.com/Item/23948

Delphi 2007 Help Expert http://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/24815