Component Help Installer 3.0.0

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Developer Tools > Help > Components

Description

This is a mothballed project and is no longer being development. Anyone can take it over if they wish. Please see the project's home page for details.

Component Help Installer installs Delphi-compatible help files into Delphi's OpenHelp system in such a way that the help files are integrated with Delphi. Context sensitive help for components, classes and routines installed by CHI is accessible from the Delphi code editor, form editor and property inspector. CHI works with Delphi versions 3 to 7..

CHI2 comes in two flavours:

1. A stand-alone Windows application (CHI.exe). This detects which versions of Delphi are installed on the system and allows any available version to be chosen from the main interface.
2. A command line application (CHInst.exe) is provided mainly to enable installation of help files from batch files. The program can also be called from install programs. It provides all the functionality of the GUI based application through a command line interface. The CHI help file provides an example of using the command line application.

When used with Delphi 6 and 7 CHI will merge any .als a-keyword files found in the same directory as the help file into Delphi's master .als file. This feature works only with Delphi 6 and 7, since .als files are not supported in earlier versions of Delphi.

The WinHelp program required to display help for Delphi 3-7 is not included with Windows Vista and later OSs by default but must be downloaded and installed separately. See Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB917607 for details.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: FW
• Size: 508 592kB

Platforms:

• Delphi 3
• Delphi 4
• Delphi 5
• Delphi 6
• Delphi 7

Downloads

• Delphi 3 , Delphi 4 , Delphi 5 , Delphi 6 , Delphi 7