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 →

Based on an idea and partial implementation submitted by Sven Harazim from Landrix Software I have just added support for GNUGetText to the GExperts Message Dialog expert. It now looks like this: And generates Code like this: [delphi] MessageDlg(_('first line'+#13#10+'second line'), mtWarning, [mbOK], 0); [/delphi] Or, if you'd rather use the Windows API: which generates … Continue reading GNUGetText support for the GExperts Message Dialog expert →

After the massive improvement to the Uses Clause Manager it's time for another GExperts release. New features include: New features include: Improved keyboard navigation in the configuration dialog Improved alignment and anchors selection in the Rename Components expert An option to automatically close the message window after a successfull compile There were also several bug … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.11 experimental twm 2018-08-05 released →

No idea why nobody told me about this, but today I discovered that the download links for the GExperts 1.3.10 installers were broken due to a superfluous dash in the date part. It's fixed now. I could have sworn that I tested those links when I released that version. But before you now go to … Continue reading Broken download links for GExperts 1.3.10 →

The Uses Clause Manager Expert in GExperts used to look like this: While it was a very useful tool as it was, I have added to it quite a lot in the recent weeks: Let's start with the simple changes: Interface and Implementation uses clauses are now visible at the same time. This allowed me … Continue reading Improved Uses Clause Manager in GExperts →

The GExperts configuration dialog, while I like the general look, has always been a keyboard navigation nightmare for me. Assume you want to change the configuration of the Formatter Expert: You first open the configuration dialog pressing Ctrl+H + X. Then you press Ctrl+Tab to switch to the Editor Experts tab. You type "form" which … Continue reading Improved keyboard navigation in the GExperts configuration dialog →

A few weeks ago I added the option to set the alignment and anchors properties for controls that support them to the GExperts Rename Component expert. After having used it for a while I found that the navigation using arrow keys left something to desire. It just wasn't intuitive, e.g.: Pressing the down arrow key … Continue reading Selecting alignment and anchors in the Rename Components expert →

You might have become used to it, but probably every Delphi developer has at one time wondered why the Messages window is still visible (and takes up valuable screen real estate) even if it is empty. And even worse, if you close it manually, it automatically comes back when you compile your project. I too, … Continue reading Experimental GExperts feature: Automatically close Messages window →