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
Category: Delphi
GExperts supports even more laziness
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
Fixing wrong position and size of the Delphi 10.4 IDE window
Apparently the bug that causes the Delphi IDE to not store its position correctly when placed in full screen on a secondary monitor to the left of the primary monitor (which is my setup at home and at work) still hasn't been fixed in Delphi 10.4. Luckily the work around of editing the desktop settings … Continue reading Fixing wrong position and size of the Delphi 10.4 IDE window
Delphi IDE explorer expert updated for Delphi 10.4
I have updated my Delphi IDE explorer expert to work with Delphi 10.4. The bugfix for the Follow Focus function in Delphi 10.3 still works.
dzBdsLauncher 1.0.5 released with major improvements
I revisited my dzBdsLauncher tool again - no idea why, it just occurred to me đ - and added quite a few improvements: It now supports .dof (Delphi 6 and 7) and .bdsproj (Delphi 2005 and 2006) files. In addition to the previous checks it now also looks at the disabled packages list to determine … Continue reading dzBdsLauncher 1.0.5 released with major improvements
dzDelphiPaths tool updated for Delphi 10.4 Sydney
I have just updated my dzDelphiPaths tool to support Delphi 10.4.
dzBdsLauncher 1.0.4 released
The new version of dzBdsLauncher adds support for Delphi 10.4.
GExperts 1.3.16 experimental twm 2020-05-27 released
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
GExperts 1.3.16 for Delphi 10.4
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
When computers try to be clever
Don't you just hate it when computers try to be clever but get it wrong? OK, it's not really the computer itself but the programmer who tried to be clever. The problem usually is that he overlooked a corner case that you then hit where his sophisticated strategy fails and leaves you with something - … Continue reading When computers try to be clever