This is a test release before Erik is going to do an official 1.39 release. Please report any bugs you may find (preferentially in the GExperts community on Google+ or the bug tracker on SourceForge) In contrast to my previous releases there are now installers for each Delphi version. These installers should install everything that … Continue reading GExperts 1.38 experimental twm 2016-05-07
Category: GExperts
Why blank lines matter
This had me puzzled for a minute: [delphi] program CodeLibrarian; {$R *.res} uses GX_VerDepConst in '..\..\Framework\GX_VerDepConst.pas'; procedure ShowCodeLib; external GExpertsDll; begin ShowCodeLib; end. [/delphi] This is all the code there is to the stand alone Code Librarian tool that comes with GExperts. Then it dawned me. It's much easier to understand if you add a … Continue reading Why blank lines matter
Enhancement for the Sort editor expert
One of the editor experts in GExperts that come in handy once in a while is the Sort Expert. All it does is take the selected lines and sort them alphabetically. Now, it can sort ascending, as before, descending (not sure when you might want to do that, but since I was at it, why … Continue reading Enhancement for the Sort editor expert
FixInsight vs. GExperts
Roman Yankovsky has been so kind to donate a FixInsight license to my open source projects, in particular to GExperts. And since he just blogged about running FixInsight against the latest FMX I did the same with GExperts. The result is not too bad actually. All included there are 235 warnings, optimization and convention messages. … Continue reading FixInsight vs. GExperts
More enhancements for the search path dialog
After I found and fixed the problem with the Grep results dialog I returned to enhancing the search path dialog. Last time I added an option to replace the ListBox on that dialog with a Memo. Many people liked that change but of course, people being people, they started to complain about missing features. In … Continue reading More enhancements for the search path dialog
Safe event hooking for Delphi IDE plugins revisited
A while ago I blogged about Safe event hooking for Delphi IDE plugins. I have used this method in GExperts as well as my Delphi IDE Explorer and it worked fine for both plugins. Today I looked at the code again and didn't like it very much. Yes, it works fine and there aren't any … Continue reading Safe event hooking for Delphi IDE plugins revisited
Calculating Offsets into the Delphi editor buffer
I have already mentioned the AutoTodo wizard for Delphi when I was trying to contact the Author Peter Laman. He hasn't responded and nobody could give me any contact information. (Peter, if you ever read this, please contact me using my Google+ profile.) The animated GIF in that post shows how the new AutoTodo expert … Continue reading Calculating Offsets into the Delphi editor buffer
Paging Peter Laman
Does anybody know how to contact Peter Laman, who wrote the AutoTodoInserter wizard? I have added this functionality to GExperts based on his code. I had to make quite a few changes to make it work with Unicode but the basic structure is still the same. The license terms state "Commercial use requires permission". Even … Continue reading Paging Peter Laman
Experimental GExperts Version 1.38 2016-02-15 released
I bloged a lot about GExperts recently: A new way to call the experts in GExperts Compiling GExperts while the DLL is loaded in the IDE Backwards compatibility of uses lists Automatically scroll a memo line by line in Delphi And you have probably wondered when I will make a new GExperts release. OK, no … Continue reading Experimental GExperts Version 1.38 2016-02-15 released
A new way to call the experts in GExperts
The Delphi IDE comes preconfigured with quite a lot of keyboard shortcuts and the remaining keyboard combinations are getting less and less with every plugin that needs some more. Even worse, some functions have multiple shortcuts, e.g. the replace dialog can be called using each of Ctrl+Q H or Ctrl+R or Ctrl+H (what a waste!). … Continue reading A new way to call the experts in GExperts