PeterPanettone

Marco's Object Debugger has a nice little built-in feature: When closing the Object Debugger window with the close button in the title bar, then it minimizes to this unobtrusive little mini window in the left bottom corner of the screen: I love it!

If this is a subtle request to not post a new feature request on this topic (this cannot be understood otherwise) then please say it loud and clear. Thank you! If not, then sorry for my wrong assumption.

Marco, thank you very much! This is an invaluable debugging tool that saves me a lot of time.

I am sure that Thomas doesn't feel any pressure. I am sure he loves programming as we others do and I am sure he is open to suggestions.

It would be nice if Thomas could enable this. Just add a checkbox in the Exclude Dirs option.

Or you could simply use the Exclude Dirs option in the dialog. EDIT: Oh, I found out that the Exclude Dirs option works only when searching in directories.

That would be a nice new option: "Parse file list". With this option, grep search would parse all files listed in a separate file list. (A simple text file). This would be very useful! Or do a content search with EVERYTHING - it's very fast.

Thomas, couldn't you please add the feature that the "parse map file" checkbox is automatically disabled (grayed out) if no map file exists?

DO you create a MAP file? (Project Options ->Building -> Delphi Compiler -> Linking -> Map file). Shouldn't the GExperts Grep Search also search the unit files listed in the Map file? EDIT: I was too late - Thomas was faster.

It is very useful that the GExperts Grep Search dialog automatically inserts the current selection in the code editor as its search term! It would be equally useful if the GExperts Grep Search dialog would also automatically insert the name of the currently selected control as its search term when invoking the dialog in design mode!

I invoke the GExperts Grep Search dialog with the ALT+S shortcut. This is fast, as it can be done quickly with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand.

That is an interesting concept. So I suppose in my Application, I would have to insert a small component (or create it dynamically) that creates a form holding the RunTime Inspector and maintains a mutual connection with that form? So when the Inspector asks for a specific (updated) component property or when my app has to change a property value, then this connection gets these things done? Is that correct?

As you have different Application tabs - how is the connection made between a running Application and your tool?

Important features of a Runtime Inspector would be: • Retrieve any global variables, class field variables • Any non-local expression (!)

From the screenshot, I can see that the Objectspector is part of Scripter Studio. But can that ObjectInspector also be used as a component in your application?

Done: https://sourceforge.net/p/gexperts/feature-requests/148/ What kind of Database format does the *.fs file use?

And it works without bugs in Delphi 10.4.2:

This looks very promising: http://www.greatis.com/delphicb/objinsp/

When closing and then reopening my test project the IDE displayed this error message: I had to click on 'Ignore'. If not, the Designer was not accessible. Then I tried to show the Object Debugger at run-time: procedure TForm1.btn1Click(Sender: TObject); begin pnl1.Color := clYellow; OD.Show; end; But that produces an AV: So, in its current state, the ObjectDebugger is unusable: It would be nice if Marco could fix these bugs. Does anybody have Marco's email address?

Yes, it works in Sydney: I could change the Caption of the TPanel, but not its color. However, just inspecting all the properties is very useful!

I have found the source of the Cantu Tool (officially for Delphi 10 Seattle): https://github.com/marcocantu/ObjectDebugger I Will try if I can compile it in Sydney.

Thanks, this component looks very interesting. But I was looking for a tool similar to that created by Marco Cantu.

Good question.

Parallels support says that the virtual TPM for a Parallels VM is bound to the Mac hardware. For this reason, a Parallels VM with activated virtual TPM cannot be copied and run on another Mac.

TBCEditor (The latest release version 1.9.0) is a very versatile text editor component with many powerful features (syntax highlighting, mini-map, etc.) https://github.com/maciej-izak/TBCEditor-1 It even works in Delphi 10.4.1 Unfortunately, the included Simple Demo is (as the name says) a VERY SIMPLE demo that shows only a few of the many powerful features of the component. Many features are self-explaining, others are rather complex. Does anyone have a complex demo with this component?