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Problems writing component help for D3 (using A footnotes)

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From: Rudy Velthuis
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 00:00
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Hello all

We've encountered a problem writing component help files for Delphi
Dev.
3.0. As the Delphi help file states, we include A keynotes for every
component, property and event.  The A footnote for TShellTreeView is
"TShellTreeView_Object;TShellTreeView" (without the quotes). The A
footnote for TShellTreeView.FolderAttributes is
"TShellTreeView_FolderAttributes;FolderAttributes_Property;FolderAttri
butes", etc. We created the help file and included it in [Delphi
directory]\Help. We created a .cnt (contents) file in the same
directory, containing:

:Base shtrees.hlp>Main
:Title The ShellTreeView Component
:include delphi3.cfg

And included

:Link shtrees.hlp

in delphi3.cfg

If we include a TShellTreeView in a form and press F1, Delphi searches
and can't find the TShellTreeView. It opens the Index tab and shows
TShareImages (which is closest to TShellTreeView, I guess).  If we
press F1 in the Object Inspector with FolderAttributes selected, it
can't find this either.

Is this a problem with D3.0 (so should we get D3.01 and download D3.02
then) or is this an error in the help files (should our A keynotes or
delphi3.cfg or contents file be different)?  To write the help, we use
MS Word 7.0 (1995) and a library of (our own) macros to create help
files.

BTW, we know how to write help files using B keynotes (we did this
successfully for D2 and D1).  We included $, K and # endnotes for
every Delphi topic.  We tried footnotes instead, but to no avail.

Is there something we're missing (like an option in the hpj file, or
some extra keynotes)?

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

Rudy Velthuis
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From: "Rudy Velthuis" <rvelthuis@cww.de>
Subject: Problems writing component help for D3 (using A footnotes)
Date: 1998/04/08
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