I’ve just released an updated version of the very old IDE Explorer. This new version (RAD Studio 2010 to XE10) uses the new RTTI unit which was introduced in RAD Studio 2010 and provide access to Fields, Methods, Properties and Events for all scopes of information. This is something I’ve wanted to do for many… Read More »
Overview The topic for this blogs is putting your Options/Configuration pages for your experts/wizards inside the IDE’s options dialogue. I actually didn’t know you could do this until I saw David Millington’s IDE add-ins and thought, “I wonder how he did that?”. As it turns out this functionality has been around since RAD Studio XE,… Read More »
Its here 🙂 The Delphi Open Tools API Book
I don’t know whether its an issue with my Delphi XE7 (I’ll find out when Seattle 10 arrives) but it doesn’t seem to have any Win32/64 help in the system anymore. I’m assuming that this is related to the space in the help required by the new FireMonkey and cross platform support. Since most of… Read More »
I’ve now move the Integrated Testing Helper to this page. In a similar manner to Browse and Doc It, I hope to brings you a few fixes and improvements that have happen. regards Dave.
I have moved my (some what dated) Browse and Doc It information to this page. Over the next few months I’ll attempt to release the few updates / fixes that I’ve applied while using it with XE, XE2 and XE7.
I’ve moved another of my old Delphi OTA wizard / expert to this new page of this blog. regards Dave.
I’ve moved the contents of the AutoSave IDE Wizard from its old location to a new page on this blog. regards Dave.
Well its taken me a long time to produce this chapter because of what I believe are bugs in the various IDEs which I thought at the time was just me not doing it right. The topic today is all about a more correct way of adding menus to the IDEs. The previous way I… Read More »
I stumbled on to something the other day that I didn’t know about. Burried in the Delphi 7 (Personal for me) help directory is a help file for the Open Tools API. The contents page is broken and I can not be sure of how extensive the help is but at 2 MB there should… Read More »