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The Delphi IDE has the quite useful option to add custom entries to the Tools menu. These entries call external programs with some “Macros” that reference the current IDE status, e.g. the currently active project or source file and some of their properties like the output directory or the current editor column and row. GExperts already enhances the Tools Properties dialog by adding auto completion for the file name and the working directory (for Delphi 6 and 7 it also adds support for Drag and Drop, but that doesn’t work for later versions). It has always irked me that there was no easy way to port these custom tools entries from one Delphi version or installation to another. I always had to copy and paste four fields to achieve that. GExperts now adds two new buttons to export and import the current entry: Read on in my blog post https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2019/06/08/new-gexperts-ide-enhancement-export-and-import-entries-for-the-tools-menu/

I have just uploaded the sources for the Code Coverage Plugin shown during my session at EKON 22 on Monday. Besides its functionality it may also give some guidance on writing IDE plugins in general. https://bitbucket.org/uweraabe/codecoveragemagician Tested only on Delphi 10.2.3 Tokyo!

..just followed up by part 2: http://fixedbycode.blogspot.com/2019/06/cure-for-pox-found-in-avalon.html?m=1 - with a bit on reverse engineering 😊

I have made an adaptation of Pas2js for Delphi compiler. So now it's possible to compile and debug the code of this utility in Delphi IDE. If somebody interested you can find it here: https://github.com/Kryuski/pas2js-for-delphi. The original Pas2js transpiler for Free Pascal is here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/pas2js

I-Pascal v2.0 has been released. What is I-Pascal? It's a Pascal language support plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. Integration with Delphi and Free Pascal Compiler. The main goal of the project is to provide modern code editing and inspection tool for Pascal language. Dependency cycles ready. In the new release: Completion options from not used yet units (with automatic modification of uses clause) Completion itself is improved and not is comparable to one for Java Delphi 10.3 inline declarations syntax support. Highlighting, find usage, renaming etc. No inherited destructor call inspection Project site: http://siberika.com/ Installation instructions: http://siberika.com/install.htm Source code: https://github.com/casteng/i-pascal