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While a "Readme" file can cover important ground, it isn't very long before your programs look pretty amateur without a "proper" helpfile. Happily, connecting them to your program is easy.
Creating them, while not hard, isn't trivial. There's information on tools and techniques for creating .hlp files here:
creation of helpfiles.
Just before explaining how to link your program to it's helpfile, let me mention that this tutorial doesn't go into the question of context sensitive help.
Let's say your program is called TRD6.exe, and the helpfile is TRD6.hlp. It is easiest, and makes sense, to put the .hlp file in the same folder (directory) as the .exe.
Within the OnFormCreate handler, for programs named as above, you would put...
application.helpfile:='TRD6.hlp';
To launch the helpfile becomes a simple matter of executing...
application.helpcommand(HELP_CONTENTS,0);
You could put that as what happens in the OnClick handler for a menu item called "help", or the OnClick handler for a button labelled "Help"... or you could call it some other way... but that's all the code you need!
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