The GExperts Macro Library expert can now display and edit keyboard macros that have been recorded in the Delphi IDE. It uses the information I described in my article on Interpreting Delphi IDE Keyboard Macros. You get to this dialog via the context menu of a macro. It allows you not only to display and … Continue reading Display and edit keyboard macros with GExperts →

Keyboard macros have been part of the Delphi IDE since basically forever (I remember using them in Delphi 5 but I wouldn't rule it out that they already existed in Delphi 1 which I never used.) GExperts also has had the Macro Library Expert since I know about it to overcome the Delphi IDE's shortcoming … Continue reading Interpreting Delphi IDE Keyboard Macros (Updated) →

When Embarcadero added the Navigation Toolbar to the Delphi code editor in Delphi 10 there were a few people who didn't like it because it took up some more of the vertical screen space. But there was no option to disable it. Achim Kalwa wrote an expert to hide this toolbar and contributed the code, … Continue reading Fixed HideNavBar functionality in GExperts →

As of today, I have stopped developing GExperts in the formatter branch and switched to the trunk of the repository.

Prompted by a post from +Attila Kovacs I have added the menu designer form (TMenuBuilder) to the list of forms which GExperts enhances. In this case, it only stores the size and optionally the position of the form. And since I was at it, I also added several other forms: TActionListDesigner TFieldsEditor - used for … Continue reading Some more form enhancements in GExperts →

A feature request for GExperts mentions a tool called JEDI Experts which is a project on SourceForge which has been inactive since Delphi 6 times. The description reads as follows: JEDI Experts is set of experts/wizards to be used in Delphi IDE. While they can be used directly in Delphi IDE, the main task will … Continue reading Anybody interested in adding stuff from JEDI Experts? →

The Goto dialog IDE enhancement of GExperts got itself an enhancement: It now also displays "Package", "Requires" and "Contains" in the list. Also, all IDE dialog enhancement classes now derive from a new TIdeDialogEnhancer class which provides some basic functionality that previously was duplicated.

GExperts now has got a very small enhancement for the Application tab in the project settings dialog of the Delphi IDE: A new button that sets the lib suffix to the default value corresponding to the IDE version which is showing this dialog (example: Delphi 2007 -> 110, Delphi 10.1 -> 240). This is only … Continue reading New IDE enhancement for the Application settings →

Achim Kalwa, who has been steadily contributing to GExperts, submitted a patch that changes the sort order used by the "Sort Selected Lines" Expert in GExperts to use the natural sort order, similar to the way Windows Explorer sorts files. E.g. Assume you want to sort the following: Label20 Label1 Label10 Label2 Label100 Label3 Label11 … Continue reading GExperts Sort Selected Lines Expert now uses “natural” sort order →

The Convert Strings Editor Expert was added to GExperts months ago, but I forgot to document it. Now there is the documentation. It is similar to the Multi Paste functionality of Delphi 10 Seattle and later. (But was developed independently, I didn't even know that it exists until Nick Hodges blogged about it.)