Delphi 2010 introduced two new panels at the bottom of the Object Inspector in the Delphi IDE, the Quick Action panel and the Description panel. I didn't really notice them until I read this question on StackOverflow. It caught my attention because the screenshot showed mostly captions of the menu items added by GExperts to … Continue reading Hiding the Quick Action and Description panel in Delphi with GExperts →

I have finished the filter functionality for the GExperts Class Browser expert. There are now filter fields for the class name as well as for the members. As of now (2017-01-07), there is no release of GExperts with this feature. But you can always get the sources and compile your own.

INI files, once the most used way for storing program configurations, are still popular due to their simplicity. Delphi offers two ways for accessing them: TIniFile - which uses the Windows API functions WritePrivateProfileString / GetPrivateProfileString TMemIniFile - which is implemented in Delphi and optimized for speed. If you only want to read or write … Continue reading Writing large INI files →

GExperts has got several options to enhance various IDE forms. They can be enabled and disabled on the configuration dialog's IDE tab. There is now a new one: Enhance Goto dialog. It's the dialog you get when selecting Search -> Go to Line Number which looks like this in it's original full glory: It hasn't … Continue reading New GExperts IDE form enhancement for the Goto dialog →

I must admit I'm getting tired of waiting for Erik to make a new official GExperts release. So, here is another experimental one. The motive for making this release is twofold: The Delphi 10.1 Berlin update 1 for which I released a hotfix A bug I discovered and fixed yesterday that caused GExperts to crash … Continue reading GExperts 1.38 experimental twm 2016-10-03 released →

GExperts 1.38 experimental twm 2016-09-18 has a few issues with Delphi / Rad Studio 10.1 Berlin Update 1. Simply recompiling the DLL made them go away for me, so I provide the recompiled DLL as a hotfix for this release. Go the release page to get it.

Since apparently Erik needs more time for the official GExperts 1.39 release, here is another experimental test release. Please report any bugs you may find (preferentially in the GExperts community on Google+ or the bug tracker on SourceForge) Again, I have built installers for each Delphi version. These installers should install everything that is necessary, … Continue reading GExperts 1.38 experimental twm 2016-09-18 released →

The GExperts IFDEF expert now supports include files. For each include file in the current unit it displays an additional tab containing all symbols defined in that include file with {$DEFINE }, {$UNDEF } and the usual disabled notation of these {.$DEFINE }, {.$UNDEF }. It searches for the include files in the search path … Continue reading GExperts IFDEF Expert support for include files →

Several times people have asked me how to compile their own GExperts dll. It’s really simple, here is how.