Microsoft dropped support for the old WinHelp (*.hlp) file format in Windows 7 (or was it in Vista?). They provided a download that added the missing WinHlp32.exe (and probably quite a few other files) back so we could display .hlp files again. Today I had the need to do that on Windows 8.1. Unfortunately I … Continue reading WinHlp32 for Windows 8.1
Day: December 20, 2015
Adding an icon to the Delphi IDE splash screen
In a previous blog post I described how to add an entry to the Delpih IDE About dialog. This time it's about the splash screen. Since Delphi 2005 the IDE provides the SplashScreenServices interface that is available even before the other interfaces that make up the ToolsAPI. It allows adding an icon to the splash … Continue reading Adding an icon to the Delphi IDE splash screen