Graeme Geldenhuys, that’s probably because MS screwed things up with the silly and unnecessary HTML Help system some ten years ago. If Borland/Inprise/CodeGear/whatever had stuck with the old Windows Help system, it would probably be an order of magnitude faster.
It’s one thing that MS screwed it up; but everyone was already used to that by then. The real mystery is why B/I/C/w — and everyone else — so blindly followed along. MS itself obviously weren’t going to abandon Windows Help (because of backwards compatibility with legacy applications), so B/I/C/w didn’t need to do so either.
Christian Conrad Indeed, and they could have used any of the many HTML help alternatives (several of which were based on Delphi, and had proper search)
Yep, installing the help files is a waste of time and space 🙂
I certainly hope a future version of Delphi will have the option of redirecting F1/Ctrl-F1 to the online wiki.
I usually just search on google with things like “TWhatever docwiki”
Perhaps a plugin could do the trick?
If not doable with the Open Tools API maybe Andreas Hausladen can share how to do it (or include it into IDEFixPack ^^)
Found something: http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/24815
After installing:
– Help -> Delphi Help Expert
– select a shortcut for Websearch
– enter this url: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Search/?cx=017879905796164350846%3Ad3x3zsyivu0&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&from=RADStudio%3Ae&q=%s
Heh, I pretty much only use the docwiki, it’s really great!
Graeme Geldenhuys, that’s probably because MS screwed things up with the silly and unnecessary HTML Help system some ten years ago. If Borland/Inprise/CodeGear/whatever had stuck with the old Windows Help system, it would probably be an order of magnitude faster.
It’s one thing that MS screwed it up; but everyone was already used to that by then. The real mystery is why B/I/C/w — and everyone else — so blindly followed along. MS itself obviously weren’t going to abandon Windows Help (because of backwards compatibility with legacy applications), so B/I/C/w didn’t need to do so either.
Christian Conrad Indeed, and they could have used any of the many HTML help alternatives (several of which were based on Delphi, and had proper search)