Delphi component help, auto-installing into Delphi's Help?

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Delphi component help, auto-installing into Delphi's Help?

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I was reading the Delphi tutorial and got to the point about installing my component's helpfile into Delphi itself. It's a manual process (editing *.cfg files, or in D5 going through the IDE). I was wondering if there was anyway to automate this process, through a setup file? (I'm using InnoSetup for most of my applications).

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You must modify the configuration files of the Delphi online help to link your own component help into Delphi's help system. The "OpenHelp" tool in Delphi does this for you but is obviously not automated.

I think that the InnoSetup news groups know the answer.
You may also want to check out My Inno Setup Extensions:
http://www.wintax.nl/isx/
Alexander Halser
Senior Software Architect, EC Software GmbH
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