There were some long standing bugs in the GExperts code formatter, most of them concerning language features that didn't exist back in Delphi 2007 (and therefore were not my primary concern for a long time). I have fixed several of them now: Anonymous methods were not indented correctly Various problems with Generics as reported here … Continue reading Various bugs in the GExperts code formatter fixed →

Everybody and his brother - ahem - sister is blogging about the latest Update for Delphi 10.3 which has been announced two days ago. As always, Embarcadero's servers are overloaded and have been down for hours. I have now started downloading the ISO and my browser is telling me it should be finished in 90 … Continue reading GExperts and Delphi 10.3.2 →

In my last post I wrote about the export and import feature for custom Tools menu entries that GExperts adds to the Delphi IDE. I also mentioned that I was thinking about adding a custom clipboard format for copying and pasting these entries between multiple Delphi instances / versions. OK, I did that. GExperts now … Continue reading GExperts adds copy and paste for Delphi Tool menu entries →

The Delphi IDE has the quite useful option to add custom entries to the Tools menu. These entries call external programs with some "Macros" that reference the current IDE status, e.g. the currently active project or source file and some of their properties like the output directory or the current editor column and row. GExperts … Continue reading New GExperts IDE enhancement: Export and Import entries for the Tools menu →

Shameless self promotion: On StackOverflow somebody asked the question in the title and I answered it. And as you might have guessed, I am mighty proud of having had that idea. It might be interesting to know that this is how GExperts fixes some of the IDE bugs and enhances some forms: It creates a … Continue reading Extend the event OnClick of all MenuItems in the screen to execute another block of code →

I had to look them up myself, so it took a while but here they are, the changes, bugfixes and improvements between the GExperts 1.3.12 (released 2018-12-22) and 1.3.13 (released yesterday, 2019-03-30): Bugfix (#105): Set Tab Order expert no longer worked with Delphi 6, 7 and 2005 (Remember what I wrote about testing these versions?)Improvements … Continue reading Changes between GExperts 1.3.12 and 1.3.13 →

Just in time before April fools day 2019 there is the new GExperts release (it's still 2019-03-30 so you are safe 😉 ). Please be aware that I mostly work with Delphi 2007, so this version can be regarded as tested quite well, followed by Delphi XE2. The others are only known to compile and … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.13 experimental twm 2019-03-30 released →

The GExperts Grep Search expert has various options to tell it which files to search: The current fileAll files in projectAll files in project groupA directory list (separated by semicolon) That sounds like an exhaustive list, but it isn't. Both, project and project group, were only searching files explicitly listed in the project(s). Files that … Continue reading GExperts Grep can use the MAP file →

If you get the error "PrivateGXMenuActionManager is not nil upon creation" when starting your IDE, check the entries under HKCU\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\<version>\Expert There are most likely two entries for GExperts. Remove one and the error should go away. These entries come from The installer (GExperts="path\to\dll"), because it always uses GExperts as the name for the entry.The Expert … Continue reading GExperts error: PrivateGXMenuActionManager is not nil upon creation →