Somebody just asked me whether there is a simple way to migrate GExperts settings from Delphi XE7 to a new version. The short answer is: No, but some experts (or rather: some functionality, because not everything is wrapped into an expert) have an ex- and import function. I also started to write a general ex- … Continue reading Migrating GExperts settings
Author: dummzeuch
Black Friday discount on GExperts
Joining in on the black Friday craze I am hereby offering a 90% discount on GExperts. Valid indefinitely. You only need to compile it yourself. (Sorry, could not resist. 😉 )
PortableAppsToStartMenu 1.0.0
Tired of all those programs which install lots of additional stuff I have been using more and more so called "Portable Apps". "Portable" in this context means: You can put them anywhere, even on a portable storage device and start them from there. These Programs are still Windows only. And of course nobody prevents you … Continue reading PortableAppsToStartMenu 1.0.0
How secure is your WordPress installation?
I have been using WordPress for this blog for several years and always thought my setup was reasonably secure. Turns out that there is something called the WordPress REST API which allows to get quite a lot information about the installation without any security at all. E.g. https://blog.dummzeuch.de/wp-json/wp/v2/users used to show a list of all … Continue reading How secure is your WordPress installation?
GExperts 1.3.17 experimental twm 2020-10-23 released
Guess what? The new GExperts release is here. There are lots of bug fixes and a few new features in the new version. The major new feature is the Filter Exceptions expert. Please be warned that there was a bug when developing for non-Windows targets. It might have been fixed, but I can't test it … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.17 experimental twm 2020-10-23 released
Contributing to projects on GitHub with Subversion
Edit: On 2023-01-20 GitHub announced that they will stop supporting Subversion on 2024-01-08. --- 2023-04-18 twm Many open source projects have moved from the former top dog SlashdotSourceForge to GitHub and in the process usually converted from Subversion to git. This also includes quite a few Delphi libraries like project Jedi (JCL/JVCL), SynEdit or Indy. … Continue reading Contributing to projects on GitHub with Subversion
Bug and possible fix for GExperts Filter Exceptions expert – testers needed
Mahdi Safsafi has proposed a fix for the bug in the GExperts Filter Exceptions expert, which occurs when developing for non Windows targets (first reported on Embarcadero's quality portal ). I have implemented this fix and it doesn't have any adverse effects on for Windows targets. But neither he nor I can test it for … Continue reading Bug and possible fix for GExperts Filter Exceptions expert – testers needed
Source code for Andreas Hausladen’s DfmCheck available
Andreas Hausladen - most probably know him because he wrote the very popular Delphi IDE Fixpack - has just announced (in German) that he published the source code of one of his other useful tools: DFMCheck. It's in his GitHub repository. Now I have just to figure out how to actually use it. 😉
GExperts for Delphi 10.4.1
I have received a few reports about bugs in GExperts in Delphi 10.4.1 that do not occur in Delphi 10.4. Here is a GExperts DLL that was compiled with Delphi 10.4.1. Maybe it will solve some of theses problems. Simply extract the DLL and put it into the GExperts installation directory, replacing the original one. … Continue reading GExperts for Delphi 10.4.1
Delphi’s TZipFile working on a stream
Recent versions of Delphi (for a suitable definition of "recent") come with a TZipFile class implemented in the unit System.Zip. This class has the really neat feature that it can not only read the contents of a ZIP file directly from a stream but also extract a file from that stream to a TBytes array, … Continue reading Delphi’s TZipFile working on a stream