I have started to write some documentation on the internal workings of GExperts. For now, it covers only a very small part of the IDE form enhancements that GExperts provides. It is meant mostly for myself to get an overview of that part of the tool which has grown too large to understand at a … Continue reading Some documentation on the internals of GExperts →

Donations for GExperts keep coming in. It's more a trickle than a flood but hey, I'm not in it for the money. And please remember that I prefer other kinds of contributions over money. I have used that money in turn for donations to Pi-hole®: A black hole for Internet advertisements Rapid Environment Editor PDF … Continue reading How I used some more of the money donated to GExperts →

The method of changing the order of the TabSheets in a PageControl in Delphi is not obvious. Apparently there is no drag and drop support (at least not in Delphi 2007). You have to change the PageIndex property. So, if you want to insert a new page, add it and then change its PageIndex to … Continue reading Changing the order of TabSheets in a PageControl in Delphi →

As I stated before I prefer good bug reports on GExperts over money any time. Philip von Melle kept testing and providing feedback even after I thought the issue was already solved. The issue was that a Macro Template (%SELECTION) used on this code [delphi] // öäüß procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); begin ShowMessage('TEST'); end; [/delphi] while … Continue reading Bug in Macro Template expert fixed, yet another Unicode issue in GExperts →

Note to self: Do not use a watch entry like this while debugging GExperts: GxOtaReadEditorTextToString(GxOtaGetEditReaderForSourceEditor(nil)) While this might seem very convenient it will sooner or later corrupt the current edit buffer or do something even worse, because, as a comment in ToolsApi states: WARNING!!! A IOTAEditReader should never be active at the same time as … Continue reading Consider side effects if you use debugger watches →

GExperts so far comes with a special stand alone executable GExpertsGrep that does nothing else but load the GExperts dll and call the entry point ShowGrep. Having this additional executable isn't really necessary because Windows already comes with a tool that does exactly that: Load a DLL and call an entry point: rundll32.exe rundll32 path\to\your.dll,EntryPoint … Continue reading Calling GExperts Grep (or an entry point in any Delphi dll) via rundll32.exe →

Various people have reported an error message regarding rtl240.bpl not being found when calling the stand alone version of GExperts Grep. I could never reproduce it but my recent insight on SaveLoadLibrary now also solved that one: The stand alone version of GExperts Grep tries to load any GExperts dll, regardless which version. The idea … Continue reading Error regarding rtl240.bpl not found in stand alone version of GExperts Grep →