Hey,

I have this very troublesome problem.....
The find-tab in the Delphi-Help system doesn't work.
Everything else works (Contents, Index).. only when
I select the find-tab Help starts preparing the search-
database... and after 10 minutes it says: Can't display
the find-tab...

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Rinke Hoekstra

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:24:00 +0100, "Rinke Hoekstra" <rhoek...@wins.uva.nl>
wrote:

Which Delphi are you using? There are currently versions 1, 2, 3, and 4.

How much disk space is available? Remember that the full text search
facility of Windows help files involves creating search files (with the
extensions .FTS and .FTG). These files can be as large as or even larger
than the original .HLP files. The Delphi 4 online help files are about 14Mb
in size, so the full text search files might be anywhere from 14Mb to 21Mb
(this being in addition to the disk space used by the .HLP files
themselves).

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This is known winhelp limitation. It has nothing to do with delphi, free
memory, free disk, only help file size
In a 12mb help file you can't use find. Try with minimize database option,
sometimes it works - on win98 more or less works, on win95 more or less
doesn't.

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Robert

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