I have updated my Delphi IDE explorer expert to work with Delphi 12.

I just added some minor enhancements to my Delphi Ide Explorer expert: For TShortCut properties it now also displays the text representation for the shortcut. For TShortCutList properties (TAction.SecondaryHotkeys) it now displays "<no shortcut>" if the list is emtpy rather than an empty string For TStrings properties it now displays "<empty>" if the list is … Continue reading Minor Delphi Ide Explorer enhancement →

I have updated my Delphi IDE explorer expert to work with Delphi 11.

I have updated my Delphi IDE explorer expert to work with Delphi 10.4. The bugfix for the Follow Focus function in Delphi 10.3 still works.

In December 2018 I found out that some of the functionality in my Delhi IDE explorer was broken in Delphi 10.3, namely the function to select the current active control or automatically follow the focus. The reason was that the IDE now used the Screen.ActiveControlChanged event itself, disabling it for to my plugin. Today I … Continue reading Bugfix for Delphi IDE explorer in Delphi 10.3 →

I just found out what is wrong with my Delphi IDE Explorer in Delphi 10.3 Rio. The symptom is that the Follow Focus option and the Select Active button no longer work in some forms, in particular in the options dialog (Tools -> Options / Run -> Parameters / Project -> Options). The reason is … Continue reading Delphi IDE Explorer is broken in Delphi 10.3 Rio →

Since it became rather cumbersome to find the information on my Delphi IDE Explorer expert, which was scattered through multiple blog posts, I have now added a static page for it to my blog which I will keep up to date whenever I change anything in the expert. The sourceforge page now also points to … Continue reading New static page for my Delphi IDE Explorer expert →

I have updated my Delphi IDE explorer expert to work with Delphi 10.2. The sourcecode is available from SourceForge.

I wrote this Delphi IDE Explorer Expert when I was trying find the button for showing and hiding the background for the Firemonkey mobile form designer and turn the bloody thing off for good. Later, I ported it back to Delphi 2007 to 2010 and also added support for Delphi 10 Seattle. Then I started … Continue reading Delphi IDE Explorer Expert for Delphi 6 to 10.1 Berlin →

There was one shortcoming in my Delphi IDE explorer that has irked me since the beginning: It was disabled while a modal dialog was shown in the IDE, so there was no way to inspect the controls on the current dialog. The option to follow the focus ameliorated this a bit because it was now … Continue reading Enabling a form while another form is being shown modally →