Category Archives: Open Tools API

Notify Me of Everything Part 3 (Fix)…

By | February 23, 2020

After writing my last article and publishing the updates to the DGH IDE Notifier, I found a situation where one of the notifiers raised an access violation. The notifier in question is the IOTAEditorNotifier and the method ViewNotification. I found that if I viewed the form design as text this method would be called with… Read More »

Notify Me of Everything – Part 3…

By | February 15, 2020

In this third articles on notifiers in the IDE, I’ll show you how to get at some of the more difficult notifiers that aren’t exposed by the IOTAXxxxxServices interfaces. These notifiers have been implemented in my DGH IDE Notifier plug-in but I’ve also used some of them in my Browse and Doc It plug-in to… Read More »

How to get the current compiling settings

By | December 1, 2019

In most instances checking that an IOTAProject interface supports IOTAProjectBuildConfigurations and using the interface’s ActiveConfiguration to get the configuration being used works as the IDE changes the active project. However there is one circumstance where this does not work and that is with project Build Groups which are accessed from the Project Manager and allow… Read More »

Searching Libraries for Units Revisited

By | August 28, 2019

Sunday was clearly one of those days when I should have given up and gone out (even though I would have melted) as I was being stupid whn I couldn’t get IOTABuildConfiguration to work, I was just doing it all wrong. Below is some of the code updated to what it should have been 🙁… Read More »

Searching Libraries for Units

By | August 26, 2019

Yesterday I eventually got around to implementing a function of one of my IDE plug-ins that was missing. In the Debug with CodeSite plug-in, one of the missing checks was to ensure that CodeSiteLogging was on the search path either for the project or the IDE. This is similar to a question that was asked… Read More »