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 →

A new release of my experimental GExperts version is available. I fixed yet another issue with Unicode / UTF-8. It works now with some Arabic strings which got converted to question marks before. The usual warning applies: My unit tests still work so apparently I haven't broken too much in the process. I also tested … Continue reading GExperts code formatter is now a little bit more Unicode aware →

In my last post I announced that the GExperts code formatter is now Unicode aware. Little did I know. Mohamed Kamel sent me a source file with Arabic strings which still got converted to question marks. So today I have dived into the source code again. I nailed the problem with Arabic strings (and added … Continue reading Unicode is hard – harder than I assumed →

After getting my Delphi XE8 installation to work again I have released a new experimental GExperts version. It is the first where the code formatter should be fully Unicode aware (for Delphi IDEs supporting Unicode, that is >= 2005). My tests worked and some brave souls also tested it live. Also, I found and fixed … Continue reading GExperts code formatter is now Unicode aware →

The latest version is the first version that supports Delphi XE8. There is nothing really new about the formatter code. But the new release can be installed even if you don't have the official GExperts installer (yet). This is an extract from the readme file: ** Installing without an official installer ** With two Delphi … Continue reading Experimental GExperts Version 1.37 2015-04-11 released →

The latest version is the first version that supports Delphi XE7. There is nothing really new about the formatter code. But the new release can be installed even if you don't have the official GExperts installer (yet). This is an extract from the readme file: ** Installing without an official installer ** With two Delphi … Continue reading Experimental GExperts Version 1.37-2014-09-04 released →