Roy,

Thanks for the tip.

Anyone else find it pathetic that a completely updated help system needs
command lines to configure? Even if we can't modify the help files it
seems like we should be able to hide sections of help at our discretion
from within the user interface. Just another fine engineering job
courtesy of MS.

Sean





Roy Lambert wrote:
> Sean
>
>
> Posted this elsewhere in the ng's
>
>>> There is also way too much .NET and C++ stuff in there
>>> for my liking, but hey, I may need it some day...
>> Jump into the command line and execute the following:
>>
>> Start | Run...
>> cmd
>> cd <your install folder> (C:\Program Files\Borland\BDS\4.0\ by default)
>> cd Help\Common
>> RegHelp -2
>>
>> Should unregister the .NET help stuff.
>>
>> RegHelp /? for more information
>>
>
> THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! works for D2005 also.
>
> Roy Lambert
>

I must be missing something because I sure can't find the help
I need quickly and easily! Is this supposed to be an improvement?

Jon

Sean McCall wrote:
> Roy,
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> Anyone else find it pathetic that a completely updated help system needs
> command lines to configure? Even if we can't modify the help files it
> seems like we should be able to hide sections of help at our discretion
> from within the user interface. Just another fine engineering job
> courtesy of MS.
>
> Sean
>
>
>
>
>
> Roy Lambert wrote:
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> Posted this elsewhere in the ng's
>>
>>>> There is also way too much .NET and C++ stuff in there
>>>> for my liking, but hey, I may need it some day...
>>> Jump into the command line and execute the following:
>>>
>>> Start | Run...
>>> cmd
>>> cd <your install folder> (C:\Program Files\Borland\BDS\4.0\ by default)
>>> cd Help\Common
>>> RegHelp -2
>>>
>>> Should unregister the .NET help stuff.
>>>
>>> RegHelp /? for more information
>>>
>>
>> THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! works for D2005 also.
>>
>> Roy Lambert
>>

Reading the posts in the Borland ide ng the fact that the olh is a step backwards is a strong theme.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< Reading the posts in the Borland ide ng the fact that the olh is a step
backwards is a strong theme. >>

It's not Borland's fault as much as it is MS's.  They're the ones that
dicated the use of MS Help 2 in the .NET framework.  I suppose Borland could
have opted out in favor of something else, but I'm not sure what other than
straight HTML Help.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

>It's not Borland's fault as much as it is MS's. They're the ones that
>dicated the use of MS Help 2 in the .NET framework. I suppose Borland could
>have opted out in favor of something else, but I'm not sure what other than
>straight HTML Help.

Never forget Borland help has always had a reputation of being somewhat "idiosyncratic"

What they could have done is supplied different sets of help depending on what you've installed or provided the facility to remove the junk you don't want.

In both D6 and D2006 if you can click on something in the IDE and press F1 it wasn't to bad trying to find things manually in D6 OLH was a PITA and that pain has doubled with D2006.

Roy Lambert