Re: D7 same problem (was: BDS 2006 Help: missing index)

Maybe it's just me, but I've never had problems with help, whether in
D7 or BDS. My index has stuff in it, and F1 works. I've never
pressed F1 and not gotten any results. Just lucky I guess.


Ruud Schmeitz wrote:


Steve Troxell <steve_troxell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(...)
My help works fine, there is just no index. Table of contents
is intact; searching works; F1 works (such as it is). The
index is just completely empty.
(...)
Steve Troxell

I have exactly the same problem with the D7 help.
I've tried to solve this by rebuilding the d7.ohi from scratch.

The first time with only the first line of the original d7.ohi:
:INDEX What's New in Delphi=d7new.hlp

Tried the help in D7, and the index was there !

I closed the help, deleted the d7.GID file, and added the second
line (of the original d7.ohi) to my new d7.ohi file, which then
looked like:
:INDEX What's New in Delphi=d7new.hlp
:INDEX Delphi Help=d7.hlp

Tried the help again, and the index was there again too.

I continued adding lines, and testing the help. The index was
always there until I added this line:
:Index VCL Reference=d7vcl.hlp

This time when I tried the help, there was no index !

I did some more testing and found that adding one of these
lines (instead of the VCL line) resulted in the same problem:
:Index CLX Reference=d7clx.hlp
:Index Web Object and Component Reference (ILIB)=d7ilib.hlp

Those 3 hlp files are quite big. Is there some sort of limit
to the use of hlp-files in the d7.ohi ?

And what's the function of the d7.ohx file ?
It looks remarkably similar to the original d7.ohi file, but
the VCL, CLX and ILIB lines (and other lines) all start with a
semicolon (;), meaning that they're treated as comment, right ?

Ruud Schmeitz



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