The GExperts PE Information tool just got a small improvement: The Exports list can now be sorted by clicking on the column header and filtered on the export name by simply typing text. The Escape key resets the filter. If you want to discuss this article, you can do so in the corresponding post in … Continue reading Filtering and sorting for the GExperts PE Information Exports list →

I my last GExperts related blog post I wrote about the new "Close Exception Notification" expert which I just had added to GExperts. It was a hack that hooked the Exception Notification dialog. This spawned a discussion in the international Delphi Praxis forum and resulted in a rewrite of the expert. It's now called "Filter … Continue reading New Filter Exceptions expert in GExperts →

I got into programming because I am lazy, I'd rather have the computer do the boring work than doing it myself. So it's no wonder that I always liked Delphi and GExperts because both support my laziness. Today I added yet another feature to save me a key stroke or mouse click: The "Close Exception … Continue reading GExperts supports even more laziness →

There they are, the promised GExperts 1.3.16 installers for older Delphi versions. This time I didn't blog much about the work I did on GExperts. I spent a lot of time actually working on it instead. There are lots of bug fixes and a few new features in the new version. I hope this time … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.16 experimental twm 2020-05-27 released →

Today I downloaded and installed the latest and greatest Delphi 10.4. The first thing to do, was of course compile GExperts for it. Thanks to Achim Kalwa I already had a working project and he also made all other changes necessary to make it compile. So basically I loaded the project and pressed Compile. A … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.16 for Delphi 10.4 →

The IFDEF editor expert was added to GExperts in 2016 and improved again in the same year, to support symbols defined in include files. Unfortunately sometimes an include file itself sometimes includes other files (e.g. jclNN.inc in the JEDI Code Library includes jedi.inc) which will usually add additional symbols which are then available for conditional … Continue reading More features for the IFDEF expert in GExperts →

In 2012 Uwe Raabe blogged about an extension to the DUnit framework he had written. He mentioned it today in the German Delphi Praxis forum. Guess what? It's brilliant. It does exactly what I always wanted to write (and never came around doing) for the Unit Tests of the GExperts Code Formatter. Those tests basically … Continue reading DUnit Folder Iterator Extension →

As I add new functionality to GExperts the menu it displays grows larger and larger. On small monitors (there are still computers with e.g. 1024x600 pixels screen size in use, usually not with the latest Delphi version though) this means that the menu has to be broken into chunks, each with a "more" entry at … Continue reading The annoying problem of the growing GExperts menu →

The code formatter can now handle inline variable declarations. That was actually just a simple change (fixes bugs #157 and #158 (and the duplicate #165)) Now I'm trying to get it to format function declarations like this: [delphi] function RegisterClipboardFormatW(lpszFormat: PWideChar): UINT; stdcall; external user32 Name 'RegisterClipboardFormatW'; [/delphi] or something as simple as this; [delphi] … Continue reading Working on the GExperts Code Formatter again →

The installers for GExperts 1.3.15 were/are detected as malware by several virus scanners on Virus Total. I have since submitted them all as false positives to Kaspersky and some to Microsoft and after their latest signature updates their scanners are now fine. I tried the same with other virus scanner vendors, but their procedure was … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.15 installers were/are detected as malware →