The Recursive ISV

Help file is finished, completed, totally done and linked into the project in each window as required.  Completely covered, all topics expanded, no room for any improvement…

And if you believe that I have this rock I’d like to sell you in Central Australia. 

But.  For this iteration the help I’ve done will do as a first step with a view towards massive expansion later.

Linking it in was a little trickier.  Delphi did not like this idea at all.  Help Contents was fine but topic sensitivity took more work than I necessary for reasons that still allude me.  There’s some broken things in Delphi.  I’ve never had to fight it over help files until now.

In fact, and I’ve been a loyal Delphi coder since Delphi 1 in 1995 (and before that the Turbo’s), I am inches away from converting to MS C# and .Net for future projects and indeed later versions of this one.  That does not make me feel particularly good, in fact it pees me off no end.  But there you go.  Never thought I’d hear myself saying that.

OK.  My next trick is to do a check for last minute show stoppers, ignoring any minor irritants for the moment.  A few little adjustments to be made on some alignments that got out of whack on widgets here and there while doing the last set of code changes.

Following that I’m going to be spending a few hours implementing code wrapping with the tool I purchased from Oreans.

Finally for tomorrow comes the the installer and then, all things being equal (and very little is in this business <g>) some tests in some VM’s and it’s off to the Beta testers.

That brings me to Monday which I hope to spend doing the website using the templates created for me by Sue as Alta Webworks.

If I complete these tasks by Monday night and the results come back clean from the Beta testers then we are good to go on Tuesday.  If not then I’m SOL in terms of 30 Days, but none the less a massive improvement on when we started on Day 1. 

Later…

Scott Kane

Quote of the day:
When I was born I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half. - Gracie Allen