Because I messed up the dockable form handling for the new Bookmarks expert which resulted in spurious cascading access violations when closing the Delphi IDE, I had to revisit that code. And so I can look up the information I gathered fixing that problem, I'm putting it here for later reference. Basically, you create a … Continue reading Dockable form handling within GExperts →

New year, new GExperts 😉 I just want to show off the one new feature that resides in the IDE tab of the configuration dialog: (I also fixed the tab order in this dialog.) What does it do? Quite simpple: It shows a little '...' button in the package list dialog(s). You get this dialog … Continue reading Experimental GExperts Version 1.38 2016-01-09 released →

Just in time for the holidays, here it is, the Christmas release of my experimental GExperts version. You might already have read my blog posts about the work on some of the new features, but let's start with the "boring" one: I fixed the Unicode support again, this time actually the non-Unicode support because the … Continue reading Experimental GExperts Version 1.38 2015-12-22 released →

Don't you just hate it when you sit in front of a 24" monitor and have to use a form that is the size of a postage stamp? GExperts has got a nifty feature where it makes forms of the Delphi IDE sizable that aren't by default. This works only for some forms and I … Continue reading Making a Delphi form sizable without changing BorderStyle →

Again, there is nothing new about the formatter code. But there is a new option to improve the IDE search path dialogs: What it does is replace the list box in the search path dialog with a memo, so editing that path is much easier (in my opinion) than before. Unfortunately I have yet to … Continue reading Experimental GExperts Version 1.38 2015-10-21 released →

In the comments to my Google+ post announcing my blog post on Hacking the Delphi 10 Project Options dialog Ondrej Kelle said: If two or more plugins hijack the same global event handler then they must restore the previous (from their point of view) handler in reverse order, however this is not guaranteed and therefore … Continue reading Safe event hooking and unhooking (for Delphi IDE plugins) →

Today I wanted to do something I did before: Add a drop file handler to an edit control in a dialog of the Delphi IDE. The dialog in question is the the Project Options dialog. I thought it would be pretty simple to do that: Get the dialog instance from Screen.Forms list. Get the edit … Continue reading Hacking the Delphi 10 Project Options dialog →

Note to self: If you encounter the error bds.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point @System@Sysutils@Exception@GetBaseException$qqrv could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Delphi\DelphiXE8\bin\dbkdebugide220.bpl. while trying to debug an IDE Expert for Delphi 10 Seattle: Check the host application you put into the Run -> Parameters dialog! Chances are you … Continue reading Entry Point Not Found in dbkdebugide220.bpl →

There is nothing new about the formatter code. But there are two new GExpert functions and I also improved several GExperts dialogs: The first new functionality is hiding the navigation bar in Delphi 10 Seattle. The code was kindly donated by Achim Kalwa. You can find the option in the GExperts configuration dialog on the … Continue reading Experimental GExperts Version 1.38 2015-10-10 released →

The latest version is the first version that supports Delphi 10 Seattle. There is nothing really new about the formatter code. Achim Kalwa submitted a patch that solves yet another Unicode issue, this time with the Code Proofreader expert. Another change is that there won't be a regular expert dll this time. After polling on … Continue reading Experimental GExperts Version 1.37 2015-09-06 released →