EC Software Help Suite (EHS)

Version: 1.90 (updated February 2008)

Freeware components for Borland Delphi with full source.

[D3,D4,D5,D6,D7,D2005,D2006 and D2007]

Note: EC Software Help Suite provides a bridge to enable HTML Help (.chm), that was missing in older versions of Borland Delphi. Since RAD Studio 2005, Delphi has native support for HTML Help, making EHS actually obsolete. We recommend to use the native Delphi functions for HTML Help.

EC Software Help Suite complements the help functions of Borland Delphi and fills the gap between our flagship product Help & Manual and your application.

4 powerful components manage context sensitive help, the instant implementation of HTML HELP and training card help:

TWhatsThis

automates right-click context sensitive "What's this?"-help and implements a fully automated context sensitive help mode similar to MS Word.

THelpRouter

builds a bridge to HTML HELP without extra coding. It manages the translation of help calls and context sensitive help and handles HLP as well as HTML HELP files dynamically.

THelpContextMap

stores help context numbers and their associated topic IDs in a compressed form with ultra-fast searching.

TTrainingCard

simplifies the implementation of Winhelp training cards. If you are not familar with training card help, take a look at our screen capture tool TNT which makes extensive use of this component.

Download:

EC Software Help Suite (ehs.zip, 1.2 MB)

Includes all components with full source code and a compiled exe demo.