How to set IDE to use online help (docwiki)

[Marsil 4]

I'm using the IDE dark theme and when I press F1 for help my eyes hurt (really) from the glare of help white pages!

I uninstalled help in the hope of IDE will use the online help at https://docwiki.embarcadero.com

but that didn't work, (the funny thing here is that I had to uninstall the whole thing not just help, no option for help uninstall only )

checked command line params but nothing there.

 

Anyone knows a way to do this? 

 

PS: In case you may think online docwiki pages are also white?, I use the Dark Reader browser extension:

https://i.ibb.co/py2qyxB/dt.png

 

 

[dummzeuch 1505]

4 minutes ago, Marsil said:

Anyone knows a way to do this?

Not quite what you are asking for:

Delphi Help Expert

[Uwe Raabe 2056]

16 minutes ago, Marsil said:

(the funny thing here is that I had to uninstall the whole thing not just help, no option for help uninstall only )

There is! Via the IDE menu select Tools - Manage Platforms, then switch to Additional Options, uncheck Help and click on Apply.

[Marsil 4]

@dummzeuch thanks!! I will give it a try and see 🙂

 

@Uwe Raabe Thanks!!, I didn't expect to find installer/uninstaller there,  I just launched the uninstaller from Control Panel ,

IMHO, It should be there too not just the uninstall program. 

[Marsil 4]

@dummzeuch

You tool works fine. Thanks again.

But It's not like the F1 key, It doesn't jump directly to context help for the phrase under the cursor.

It does a keyword search which is something different, Sadly the Embarcadero search engine results are poor, so

I set it to use Google which is much better in finding results.

 

I have a virtual keyboard software installed, I used it to remap SHIFT+F1 to F1 so that when

I press F1 the Delphi Help Expert will kick into action instead of the built in F1 handler.

 

This solution although not perfect but its better than getting my eyes burned every now and then!

I hope Embarcadero will add a feature to use the online help docwiki as the default help for F1, at least 

if help documentation is not installed.

 

Also I had to add this to u_dzWelcomePageHandler make it work with 10.4 CE

{$IFDEF VER340} // Delphi/RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney
  MajorVersionNumberChar = '27';
{$ENDIF VER330}

 

 

[Stano 143]

3 hours ago, Marsil said:

I use the Dark Reader browser extension:

Is this an extension? I tried it after a long time. But if I use Google Translator, the response when typing is very large The translation is black text
It is unusable for me.

There are more of them. I don't feel like trying them all. Can you advise?

Edited September 25, 2022 by Stano

[Stano 143]

After all, I just tried. The second one. It works perfectly. Immediately.

He even made a negative of my photo

Edited September 25, 2022 by Stano

[Marsil 4]

1 hour ago, Stano said:

Is this an extension? I tried it after a long time. But if I use Google Translator, the response when typing is very large The translation is black text
It is unusable for me.

There are more of them. I don't feel like trying them all. Can you advise?

 

Yes it is.

Dark Reader only changes web page colors, It does not change fonts or font sizes,

Here is how Google Translator looks in my browser with Dark Reader  enabled

https://i.ibb.co/yn3vL2F/gt.png

 

Some web sites already have dark mode so Dark Reader can be disabled for those specific sites,

Click the site address under Dark Reader title to Disable/Enable Reader for this site, example:

https://i.ibb.co/MVjqQ94/dr.png

 

 

Edited September 25, 2022 by Marsil

[Stano 143]

This extension looks cool. It does not change images.

I use the Brave browser. That will probably be it.

[dummzeuch 1505]

On 9/25/2022 at 6:52 PM, Marsil said:

@dummzeuch

I had to add this to u_dzWelcomePageHandler make it work with 10.4 CE

{$IFDEF VER340} // Delphi/RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney
  MajorVersionNumberChar = '27';
{$ENDIF VER330}

 

Yeah, I haven't updated the plug-in for a while. I'll put that on my to-do list. Thanks for reminding me.

 

edit: Done.

 

I also updated dzBdsLauncher to support Delphi 11.1 and 11.2

Edited September 26, 2022 by dummzeuch