There have been multiple bug reports regarding the stand alone Experts Manager that comes with GExperts. They all have in common that they fail with the error Expertmanager: ExpertManager.exe - System Error The program can't start because vclactnband250.bpl is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. Or similar messages giving … Continue reading When the stand alone GExperts Experts Manager fails →

Edit: There is a release version now! I have just uploaded a beta version of GExperts 1.3.12 for Delphi 10.3 Rio. NOTE: This is a BETA! Beware of bugs, e.g. the Goto-Dialog enhancements cause redraw problems if theming is enabled, the Run Parameters dialog enhancements (drag and drop for files and directories) don't work at … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.12 beta for Delphi 10.3 Rio available →

There was a bug in the (yet unreleased) GExperts code that caused an access violation every time the Delphi IDE was closed. I have just found it, but boy was that difficult! I knew the problem existed in the current source code and by trial and error I found a source code revision that did … Continue reading Found the cause of the AV on exiting the Delphi IDE →

... but I am working on it. I have already installed the new version and it compiles on my machine. But don't hold your breath, there are some issues. Until then you can always download the sources and compile your own DLL. But you have been warned: There are issues.

The Set Tab Order expert in GExperts allows you to change the tab order of controls by dragging them in a tree view. I have always wondered why the standard Tab Order dialog of the IDE has got buttons to move the current control up or down while the one in GExperts does not. OK, … Continue reading Two buttons to make a difference in the Set Tab Order expert →

I have stolen yet another idea for a new GExperts feature, this time from Dave Nottage's Codex Delphi Expert. (But the code is all mine, including any bugs you might experience.) It's the Favorites sub menu in the File menu: The content of this sub menu is generated on the fly, so it will always … Continue reading New GExperts Feature: Favorites menu →

As mentioned before, I have asked to get a sub forum for GExperts on the new English speaking Delphi Praxis forum. I got it and here is the RSS feed with the current posts (which means: One 😉 ).

You might have heard that Google is "sunsetting" Google+ so the GExperts community there will no longer exist after August 2019. There is still the GExperts Mailing List on Yahoo, but unfortunately either Google Mail or Yahoo changed something so I am no longer able to post to it (I get a rather unhelpful error … Continue reading The State of the GExperts Mailing list and G+ Community →

The Delphi IDE has supported docking of various forms for a long time (I don't remember if it ever did not). Unfortunately if not docked, the floating forms always seem to be in the way, and if you dock them, they take up screen space that you might rather use for the editor window. Given … Continue reading GExperts Enhancements for docking in the Delphi IDE →

If you enable regular expressions in the GExperts Grep search form, you can search for escape sequences like \t which is expanded to a tab character or \x20 which is expanded to char($20), the space character. Up to now it was not possible to use \t (and similar escape sequences) in the Grep replace dialog. … Continue reading Using escape characters in GExperts Grep replace →