Help System

> Again, in its current state Help System supports the two options:
>
> a) class comment/method comment for API help and
> b) topic structure mapped to the class hierarchy (CustomHelp books)
>
> I understand all things said and we all have our points
> about pros and cons. But hey, they are JUST two possible ways, nobody
> forces you to use them. Since these two are in by default does not
> mean you are limited to them.
>
> The help system is flexible enough to ADDITIONALLY HANDLE VARIOUS OTHER
> ways of describing the help contents. So YOU CAN DEFINE AND HAVE YOUR OWN
> just by extending the help system itself.

> So please check out the code I attached to my last post. In this simple
> example I've shown how you can extend the help system itself to support
> other options - here a pragma/builder oriented way of describing the
> help contents.
>
> It is not complete but should give you an idea that you are not limited
> to a) and b) ...
>
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> Again, in its current state Help System supports the two options:
>
> a) class comment/method comment for API help and
> b) topic structure mapped to the class hierarchy (CustomHelp books)
>
> I understand all things said and we all have our points
> about pros and cons. But hey, they are JUST two possible ways, nobody
> forces you to use them. Since these two are in by default does not
> mean you are limited to them.
>
> The help system is flexible enough to ADDITIONALLY HANDLE VARIOUS OTHER
> ways of describing the help contents. So YOU CAN DEFINE AND HAVE YOUR OWN
> just by extending the help system itself.
>
> After this discussion it looks like we all agree that it is a good
> direction  to check out the pragma/builder approach too and see how far we can go here.
>
> So please check out the code I attached to my last post. In this simple
> example I've shown how you can extend the help system itself to support
> other options - here a pragma/builder oriented way of describing the
> help contents.
>
> It is not complete but should give you an idea that you are not limited
> to a) and b) ...
>
> Bye
> T.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT!
> Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01
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