In my last post I announced that the GExperts code formatter now supported multiline string literals and boasted that this "was easier than I thought". Turns out that it was actually more complicated. I should have known immediately because two of the existing unit testes failed, but somehow I didn't notice that. Consider the following … Continue reading That was easier than I thought – yeah, right →

... but only in the code currently in SVN. There is no new release yet. That was easier than I thought: As of revision #4112 the formatter now actually does support multi line string literals. And only those unit tests that already failed still fail. Of course that does not mean that I have not … Continue reading GExperts Code Formatter now supports multi line string literals, but … →

I expected this but just confirmed it: The GExperts code formatter does not handle multi line strings correctly (bug #337) For now the workaround is using the comment to prevent formatting (configured on the Misc tab of the formatter configuration dialog): Use it like this: [delphi] const {(*} bla = ''' first line seconde line … Continue reading GExperts Code Formatter does not support multi line strings →

Thanks mostly to the work Achim Kalwa put into the preparations I have now built an installer for GExperts 1.3.23 Alpha for Delphi 12. Note the word "Alpha" in the release name. Basically I installed Delphi 12, fixed some problems with the build scripts and compiled Achim's new project. Then I added the Delphi 12 … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.23 Alpha for Delphi 12 →

When running stand alone, GExperts Grep Results can not be opened in the IDE. Instead an external text editor is used. This editor and the required parameters to open the file and set the cursor at the desired line and column must be configured in the File → Options menu. I have now added buttons with the … Continue reading Pre-sets for the GExperts stand alone Grep tool →

The new GExperts version still supports all Delphi versions back to Delphi 6 (with the notable exception of Delphi 8) and even the Delphi 11 version is no longer in Beta state. There are even a few new features: Fast add mode for the Uses Clause Manager is back. Uses Clause Manager: Units "System" and … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.22 experimental twm 2023-03-25 released →

Note to self: Setting a form's bounds can move the form to a different monitor. If that monitor has a different DPI than the one the form was originally on, this will cause a WM_DPICHANGED message to be sent to the form, which in turn will change the form's bounds again. This happened, for example, … Continue reading Setting a form’s bounds can cause the DPI to change →

It has been in the source code for quite a while and some few people and I have tested it, but I didn't tell anybody else about it: There is a new expert in GExperts for editing the current project's unit search path. It looks like this: It offers the same functionality as the Search … Continue reading New Edit Path expert in GExperts →

I have just applied patches that are supposed to fix some Unicode issues with Russian characters. These apply to the following editor experts: Expand Macro Template Locate / Move to matching delimiter Previous / Next Identifier reference My tests so far have shown no changes on how these work on my source code, but I … Continue reading Need help testing a GExperts bugfix →