Original delfor.hlp file?

[dummzeuch 1763]

Does anybody still have got the original help file of the DelFor code formatter? I just found that the GExperts formatter configuration dialog still tries to show it (and of course fails, because Windows can no longer display .hlp files), but even the file itself does not exist anywhere in the repository.

[Renate Schaaf 82]

I found it in my Delphi5 folder.

DELFOR_HLP.zip

[Renate Schaaf 82]

This might be a newer version:

 

DELFOR _HLP_10.zip

[DelphiUdIT 275]

You search this ?

DELFOR.HLP

 

 

P.S.: this seems to be a good location to find something about "delfor" https://gitlab.com/rchastain/pcf

Edited November 1 by DelphiUdIT

[dummzeuch 1763]

Thanks everybody. I got the file from multiple sources now (and it's always binary the same file). I could have sworn that it included screen shots of the configuration dialog, but apparently I was wrong.

[corneliusdavid 292]

On 11/1/2025 at 9:54 AM, dummzeuch said:

I could have sworn that it included screen shots of the configuration dialog, but apparently I was wrong.

Did you want screenshots of the configuration? I can generate them for you.

[dummzeuch 1763]

52 minutes ago, corneliusdavid said:

Did you want screenshots of the configuration? I can generate them for you.

No, thanks. I just want the text to integrate it into the GExperts help. I need new screenshots anyway, because the configuration dialog has changed significantly.

[limelect 54]

Talking about this subject, it would be nice to do the same as the old one could do a formatter on the whole project too.

[limelect 54]

And I have an EXE version, which I guess old timers have

DelFor.zip

[dummzeuch 1763]

13 hours ago, limelect said:

Talking about this subject, it would be nice to do the same as the old one could do a formatter on the whole project too.

Feel free to submit a patch.

[timfrost 81]

On a whim I did some experimenting with the DELFOR10 help file, posted above.  The HelpScribble website has a decompiler for .HLP which creates, inter alia, an HPJ file and an RTF file. 

Help&Manual, which I use, can open these and create a reasonable-looking H&M Project out of them. Which of course can then be saved as HTML Help, PDF, or Ewriter or a few other formats also. As a PDF it comes to only 21 pages, including contents (12 topics) and index; but without any means of opening the HLP I can have no idea what is missing, if anything. No screen shots emerged from the decompile.

I am not sure of the ethics of uploading the PDF here, (or the Help&Manual project, if you use that, from which you can make any other supported help format), so I would need the author's OK before doing that.

[dummzeuch 1763]

No need for that, thanks. I already got everything I needed from it.