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It did for me, and apparently I’m not alone. That said, I do some, um, unusual things on my system, so I can’t blame the installer with certainty.
It turns out there’s an effective workaround, however.
Download the ZIP version of the update, run the setup, and choose the repair option. That will restore Help.
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Apparently, creating an automated daily build procedure was sufficiently challenging in the past that many developers didn’t find the effort worth their time. I would dispute that assessment, but at present it’s a non-issue anyway, since Delphi 2007 makes it ridiculously easy.
I’m in a medical office this morning trying to schedule an appointment. The receptionist is clicking away with the computer mouse, and then she says, to no one in particular:
"Cannot perform this operation on a closed dataset?!?" What’s that mean?
I replied, "It means that someone has a bug in their Delphi application."
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Reg Braithwaite has got me thinking about information hiding. It’s a tenet of modular programming, including OO. But why is information hiding worth bothering with at all?
A few days ago, I mentioned an interesting paper (one of several) from the recent OOPSLA conference called "Confessions Of A Used Programming Language Salesman (Getting The Masses Hooked On Haskell)." Today I’d like to discuss that paper in some more detail.
The paper is written in an informal style, and includes some fairly audacious [...]
Via The Daily WTF, here’s Microsoft’s official handbook on "Leetspeak" for parents.
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Here are some recent papers which caught my attention. Generally speaking, you need to have a subscription to the ACM’s Digital Library to read them, but if one of these seems interesting let me know in comments and I can discuss it in more detail.
Dependent classes discusses a somewhat more flexible, proposed alternative to nested [...]
Hallvard Vassbotn has a longish but worthwhile post looking at how the Win32 Delphi compiler implements enumerators. But just in case you saw it and were turned off by the presence of ASM code, don’t miss the punchline: When implementing a custom enumerator, it’s probably a good general rule to use a record for the [...]
I wrote an article on creating InterBase User-Defined Functions in Delphi eons ago, and in it I suggest using the IBX declarations of the IB API calls when you need them. Since then, IBX has undergone internal changes to allow it to use some new features of IB, so the suggested syntax requires some revision. [...]
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