How to remove CLX-Help from Delphi 2

[Benedikt83]

Hi Programmers!

How can I remove the CLX-Help from the Delphi-Help? When searching for help and pressing F1 there is often the choice between CLX- and VCL-Stuff. I want Delphi-Help to assume, that I always want Help just for VCL.

Thanx a lot
Benedikt

 

[footpad]

Benedikt,

Use Open Help to remove the CLX Reference from your Delphi Help file. For details, please see

http://techtricks.com/delphi/noclxhelp.php,

which documents the process in a fair amount of detail.

Hope this helps...

-- Lance

 

[Stretchwickster]

Lance,

I tried doing this a month or two ago and knew I'd experienced a problem. I tried again today and when it came to save the changes to the .ohp file (after removing all the CLX references) it blew up with an App Error - The instruction at "0x35ce7202" referenced memory at "0x35ce7202". The memory could not be "read". And the help in Delphi still displays CLX and VCL references.

Any ideas what's going on?

Clive

http://www.kucu.co.uk

Ex nihilo, nihil fit (Out of nothing, nothing comes)

 

[footpad]

Clive,

Not many, no. I tried to "fake out" OH by changing the attributes of the OHP and so on; however, I wasn't able to trigger the exception. Instead, I got nicely worded error messages, so I suspect that there's at least one QA Engineer at Borland who is as sneaky as I used to be. :-}

I'd guess one of two things:

1. There are problems with the Registry. You should be able to fix those by choosing File | Clean Registry from the OH main menu or by running the Registry fixup from the installation CD. (If memory serves, it's one of the options from the install program.)

2. This was a problem, but was quietly fixed in one of the service packs. Check out

http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_delphi.html

and see if there's one available for your version of Delphi. (Note: Borland's site regrettably requires Javascript. *Sigh*)

Other than that, you might try to copy the OHP file from your install CD and then try again. (Don't forget to reset the Read Only attribute before trying to save your changes.) Granted, you'll lose the additional topics that were added by any third-party components, however, it might help you get past the initial problem.

Hope this helps...

-- Lance

 

[Stretchwickster]

Ok...cheers Lance...I'll try your suggestions

Clive

http://www.kucu.co.uk

Ex nihilo, nihil fit (Out of nothing, nothing comes)