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 →

I just released GExperts 1.3.15 for all supported Delphi versions. There have again been various bug fixes and the following notable changes: There is now a start menu entry for a new stand alone version of the GExperts Code Formatter. Note that it not only has a GUI for selecting a single file to format … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.15 experimental twm 2019-11-23 released →

Edit: There is now a new release. Before you ask: No, there is no new GExperts release yet for Delphi 10.3.3. I haven't even downloaded it yet. I might get to it this weekend. In the meantime you can get the sources and compile your own DLL with the new Delphi version. I don't expect … Continue reading No new GExperts release yet for Delphi 10.3.3 →

This is only relevant, if you have recently compiled your own GExperts DLL and you use the Uses Clause Manager's Identifier tab: There were several bugs in the unit parsing code that have been fixed. But you won't see the effect, because the buggy results from before that have been cached. In order to get … Continue reading If you compiled your own GExperts clear the Uses Clause Manager cache →

A few months ago I added the "Identifiers" tab to the GExperts Uses Clause Manager. It allows you to search for a unit that exports a given identifier. It works a bit like the "Find Unit" refactoring in the IDE since Delphi 2005. That feature starts a background thread that parses all units in the … Continue reading Several bugs regarding the GExperts Uses Clause Manager fixed →