Tag Archives: OTA

The Delphi Open Tools API Book has been updated…

By | September 28, 2016

I think the title says it all. The Delphi Open Tools API Book – Version 1.1 The update includes all the articles written since its first publication so you can have all the information in a single volume. regards Dave.

Compiling and Installing my experts and wizards…

By | April 24, 2016

Overview The idea behind this post is to cover how to compile and install my IDE add-ins if you have not followed my articles from the beginning and you just want to use them without necessarily understanding how they work. They were all built and provided here for the edification of others and thus I… Read More »

IDE Explorer Update

By | April 17, 2016

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 »

IDE Help Helper Update

By | April 7, 2016

I’ve eventually got around to updating the IDE Help Helper for as many IDEs as I’ve got (see my reasons for the restrictions on the Open Tools API page) and as far back as the interfaces will allow. It now supports RAD Studio 2007 to XE10. Along the way I’ve had to remove NameSpaces and fix… Read More »

Chapter 17: Options Page(s) inside the IDE’s Options Dlg

By | April 3, 2016

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 »

The Delphi Open Tools API Book

By | March 21, 2016

Its here 🙂 The Delphi Open Tools API Book

Chapter 16: Getting help when there’s no help

By | March 21, 2016

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 »