Tag Archives: IOTAModuleServices

Editor Views in RAD Studio

By | June 5, 2018

Overview Well, this was the blog I tried to write before Xmas before I found it didn’t quite work in all circumstances. So here I’ll describe how to create a custom editor view in RAD Studio along with editor status bar panels. These editor views are full editor tabs not sub-tabs like the sub-views I described before, therefore they are not… Read More »

The Delphi Open Tools API Book

By | March 21, 2016

Its here 🙂 The Delphi Open Tools API Book

Chapter 14: Unit Creators

By | November 16, 2011

In this chapter I will finish what I started last time and provide the Module Creator code to create new projects in the IDE or more specifically new Open Tools API projects in the IDE. While I was testing this code I noticed that the IDE did not maintain any custom code with a DPK… Read More »

Chapter 13: Project creators

By | November 10, 2011

In this chapter I’m going to show you how to create projects in the IDE. In the next chapter I’ll extend this to add modules to those projects. Firstly, for the purposes of doing something useful we need a form which allow the user to select what they want to be created in a new… Read More »

Chapter 10: Reading editor code

By | August 29, 2011

In this chapter I’ll go through how to get the code from the editor and do something with it. For this example I’m simply going to allow you to select a method from the current module and move to its position. This will use some of the utility functions I’ve described before in (see Chapter… Read More »

Chapter 5: Useful Open Tools Utility Functions

By | April 14, 2011

I thought that before tackling some of the more interesting Open Tools API topics previously mentioned that I would describe some useful utility function that can make using the OTA easier. Messages First I thought we would look at messages (but not custom ones, they will require their own chapter). These are useful for outputting… Read More »