More Help Insight Customization

Dec 3

Documentation Insight has shipped and it supports most tags in the Delphi Documentation Guidelines.

Luckily, it’s possible to customize the built-in Help Insight to make it support the tags and look better. The following snapshots show our effort. : )

Updated: Feb, 7th, 2011, V0.9.2 released (Fixed the encoding issue)

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Additional Note

You should backup your local HelpInsight.xsl file and then extract the downloaded zip file to the corresponding location.

RAD Studio 2007 or 2009: {$BDS}\ObjRepos

RAD Studio 2010 or XE: {$BDS}\ObjRepos\en

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Hope you will like it. Any ideas or bug reports, Please leave us a message or write to us at support@devjet.net.

Copyright Note: It’s not allowed to distribute this package without the permission of DevJET. It’s recommended that you use a hyper link to this post.

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David

December 5th, 2010 at 1:18 AM

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when you write:
“You should backup your local HelpInsight.xsl file and then extract the downloaded zip file to the corresponding location.”

Do you mean backup your local HelpInsight.css? The zip file does not contain a HelpInsight.xsl

Paul

December 5th, 2010 at 10:22 AM

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I’m sorry that I may not say so clear. The zip file contains a folder (HelpInsight) and a file named HelpInsight.xsl. You need to extract all of them to the corresponding location. So you should override the old HelpInsight.xsl.

Alex Zed

February 7th, 2011 at 8:36 PM

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After installing this template my HelpInsight windows looks like this: http://funkyimg.com/u2/360/761/DocInsight_abracadabra.jpg, it is supposed to be Cyrillics but its an abracadabra

Paul

February 7th, 2011 at 9:24 PM

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The most possible reason is that Help Insight can’t find the css file. Please open your $(BDS)\ObjRepos ($(BDS)\ObjRepos\en in D2010 or higher) folder, and then ensure the following files/directories exist:

HelpInsight.xsl
HelpInsight folder
HelpInsight\Configurations.xml
HelpInsight\HelpInsight.css
HelpInsight\Icons\*.*

You might not extract the files in the zip file into the correct location.

In addition, I have updated the template to solve the encoding issue. Please download the V0.9.2
Thanks for your report!

Alex Zed

February 8th, 2011 at 3:42 PM

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Thank you for the bug fixation, installed 0.9.2 version and everything is good with encoding, I see Cyrillics right.

Paul

February 8th, 2011 at 3:43 PM

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My Pleasure :^)

Simon J Stuart

April 17th, 2011 at 9:09 PM

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This is the best modification to CodeInsight I’ve ever seen! I’m just wondering if you’d have any objection to me bunlding this in with my RADPlates plugin, along with a simple menu option to switch between the DevJet and original seamlessly.

Thanks!

Paul

April 18th, 2011 at 2:26 PM

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Thank you! It was supposed to be integrated with the future Documentation Insight distribution.

Simon J Stuart

April 19th, 2011 at 6:49 AM

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Sorry… I’m not sure if that was a “yay” or “nay” to my prior question. Is this modification slated to be a defacto standard in XE2 by any chance?

Thanks again