Re: VB Devs onramp (was D2005: books and help)

From: Liz (liz_wants_no_spam_at_xcalibur.nospam.co.uk)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: 31 Dec 2004 13:40:33 -0800

Dan Barclay wrote:

> On a more useful note, there certainly should be a way to define the
> context of the help you're looking for. The idea of having VB (or
> C#) help coming up in a Delphi code window boggles the mind (yea, I
> know you get C# help from a VFred code window). Getting .Net help on
> a Win32 project should be restricted to cross-platform hints. This
> isn't just a Borland issue, but it's one that Borland should consider
> solving for their IDE.

I think thats the key point, Im at this point in time souly working in
win32, so I sure dont want to see vb, c# or delphi.net things.

Im also curious that there seems to be some major context stuff
missing, for example "setlength" there is no actual documentation its
just mentioned on a bunch of pages. (My brian had a fart and couldnt
remember adjusting variable arrays - please remind yourself Ive been in
delphi 5 for the last like 5 years or so)

Often even knowing the answer doesnt seem to help, the new "for
<variable> in <array type object> do" routine is mentioned lots of
places but is hard to find.

While I wouldnt expect a whole help book on how to convert yourself
from vb to delphi, certainly having sensible documentation that covers
all things, and is relevant (surely thats the point of it being context
driven!) would help.

I also noticed if you had help open and have done a search and you
return to the editor and press F1 for context help again.. it doesnt
seem to do a lot....

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Time to Say Goodbye, Delphi?
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    (borland.public.delphi.language.objectpascal)
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    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Re: Help Authoring Software
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    (borland.public.delphi.thirdpartytools.general)
  • Re: how eval works?
    ... I will check solution by Sebastian ... For Steve Amphlett,how u know i doesnt have white hair? ... I also think the context is important, that's why i had given the ... so I really cant write s.dot. ...
    (comp.soft-sys.matlab)
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