Help with help files

[yomyom]

Hello Delphi world!
I want my user to be able to jump straight to index page, and contents page in my help files.
After much digging about, I discovered that (Help_finder,x)
helps do this. I found that (Help_Finder,0) takes you straight to the contents page. What code would take you to the index page? I've tried (Help_Finder, -1) to (Help_Finder, 5) and it keeps taking me to the contents page. I then tried (Help_index, 0) and got the same results.

Please help me go straight to index
yomyom.

 

[Zathras]

Try something like this:

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  Application.HelpFile := 'c:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi4\Help\sqlmon.hlp';
  Application.HelpCommand(HELP_KEY, 0);

end;

 

[delphiman]

I am surprised that someone is still using MS's old Help.hlp.

Because to-day everyone (?) is using HTML.
Much easier and in line with just about every Help feature
you get in practically all software now-a-days.

Much easier to put together and use as well.

My only problem being (similar to yours) how to grab the Help.html from Delphi.

Having completed a fantastic Help.html file for my project I don't know how to grab it in a button event handler? As in

procedure TfrmGrocShop.btbtnHelpClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
//What ???
end;

I have tried using an Action List component as follows

object ActionList1: TActionList
object ActionGetHelp: TAction
Category = 'File'
Caption = '&Help'
OnExecute = ('c:\Program Files\MyProg\MyHelp.html')Execute
end
end

.....but this results in the following exception

Error creating form: "=" expected on Line 721.

Anyone?

 

[yomyom]

Go to :=

http://www.Delphi32.com

All your problems maybe solved. Goodluck !
yomyom