Drag and Drop from the GExperts Grep Results
Another episode from the series “GExperts features that I didn’t know about”: It’s possible to drag an entry from the GExperts Grep to any other Windows program, e.g. to the Explorer, which will copy...
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Per monitor DPI aware stand alone GExperts Grep
I have just finished making the stand alone GExperts Grep to really be stand alone, that is: It no longer needs the GExperts DLL but contains all the functionality in one executable. It has also been...
View ArticleGExperts 1.3.20 experimental twm 2022-01-30 released
COVID-19 is still going strong, even 2 years after it was first discovered. We’re on the Omicron variant now and nobody knows what new variants the near future may bring. I got my vaccination jabs in...
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Duplicate entries in the identifier list of the GExperts Uses Clause Manager
A long time ago I added the Identifier tab to the Uses Clause Manager in GExperts. It looks like this: In this screen shot, I filtered for TWinControl and the expert found several matching entries, the...
View ArticleGExperts 1.3.21 experimental twm 2022-04-09 released
You may remember that I was forced to reduce GExperts support for Delphi 6 a while ago, because the IDE no longer started on my computer. It turns out that it was a GExperts bug after all. The fix was...
View ArticleGExpertsInst is not a valid reference
Starting with GExperts 1.3.20 calling the standalone Experts Manager displayed the error message “GExpertsInst is not a valid reference”. After that the tool actually works fine. This bug has now been...
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Change order of experts in GExperts Expert Manager
Prompted by a post on Delphi Praxis, I just added a new feature to the Expert Manager expert in GExperts (lots of experts here 😉 ): It can now change the order in which the experts are loaded into the...
View ArticleAll known Generics bugs fixed in GExperts code formatter
I have just finished fixing all known bugs in the GExperts code formatter that were related to Generics. On top of that I fixed a few others. I am sure there are still more though, but because I rarely...
View ArticleNeed help testing a GExperts bugfix
I have just applied patches that are supposed to fix some Unicode issues with Russian characters. These apply to the following editor experts: Expand Macro Template Locate / Move to matching delimiter...
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New Edit Path expert in GExperts
It has been in the source code for quite a while and some few people and I have tested it, but I didn’t tell anybody else about it: There is a new expert in GExperts for editing the current project’s...
View ArticleTdzSpeedBitBtn updated to support scaling
4 years ago I wrote a helper class TdzSpeedBitBtn which turns a TBitBtn into a TSpeedButton that can have the focus. That helper class has also been used in GExperts (in the Uses Clause Manager and...
View ArticleSetting a form’s bounds can cause the DPI to change
Note to self: Setting a form's bounds can move the form to a different monitor. If that monitor has a different DPI than the one the form was originally on, this will cause a WM_DPICHANGED message to...
View ArticleGExperts 1.3.22 experimental twm 2023-03-25 released
The new GExperts version still supports all Delphi versions back to Delphi 6 (with the notable exception of Delphi 8) and even the Delphi 11 version is no longer in Beta state. There are even a few new...
View ArticlePre-sets for the GExperts stand alone Grep tool
When running stand alone, GExperts Grep Results can not be opened in the IDE. Instead an external text editor is used. This editor and the required parameters to open the file and set the cursor at the...
View ArticleGExperts 1.3.23 Alpha for Delphi 12
Thanks mostly to the work Achim Kalwa put into the preparations I have now built an installer for GExperts 1.3.23 Alpha for Delphi 12. Note the word "Alpha" in the release name. Basically I installed...
View ArticleGExperts Code Formatter does not support multi line strings
I expected this but just confirmed it: The GExperts code formatter does not handle multi line strings correctly (bug #337) For now the workaround is using the comment to prevent formatting (configured...
View ArticleGExperts Code Formatter now supports multi line string literals, but …
... but only in the code currently in SVN. There is no new release yet. That was easier than I thought: As of revision #4112 the formatter now actually does support multi line string literals. And only...
View ArticleThat was easier than I thought – yeah, right
In my last post I announced that the GExperts code formatter now supported multiline string literals and boasted that this "was easier than I thought". Turns out that it was actually more complicated....
View ArticleGExperts 1.3.24 Beta1 for Delphi 12
I have just built an installer for GExperts 1.3.24 Beta1 for Delphi 12. Note the word “Beta” in the release name! We are one step up from Alpha, there are still many bugs, but overall it seems to be...
View ArticleGExperts Editor Enhancement tab
I forgot to mention, that in the lastest GExperts Beta release for Delphi 12, the configuration tab for the Editor enhancement has been moved to a separate "Editor Enhancement" expert.
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