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I'm wanting to extend a Windows app via plugins. I'm sure this has come up before but I'm not quite sure what to search for. I have a standard windows Form app that has a menu across the top and side. I'd like to add plugins (new menu options) to the menu on the side. I'd like for the plugin to be scripted so any dev can add them. I down want be stuck producing a dll that has to be put in place but prefer a script (not picky about the scripting language) Add the plugin script to a folder and when the app starts/restarts the new menu item shows up and is interactive with the main app. Simplicity is key.... I'm sure I can do it but it sounds more difficult than it probably is. This is something I'm toying with after seeing a python app that allows plugins via very small and simple python scripts and am curious if I can accomplish something similar. Can someone point me to an example perhaps? Or ideas?

Hello all, If you prefer to use ChatGPT inside the IDE of Lazarus instead of the website, here is a simple plug-in for the Lazarus IDE. https://github.com/AliDehbansiahkarbon/ChatGPTPluginForLazarus

Hello, everybuddy. Recently I made a plug-in for Delphi to use ChatGPT inside the IDE. The main service is ChatGPT but it's actually multi-AI support, you can get responses from three different sources, compare and decide. I hope this can be helpful and accelerate your work. Repository: https://github.com/AliDehbansiahkarbon/ChatGPTWizard Key features: - Free text question form. - Dockable question form. - Inline questions(in the editor). - Context menu options to help you to find bugs, write tests, optimize code, add comments, etc... - Class view. - Predefined Questions for class view. - History to save your tokens on OpenAI ! - Fuzzy string match searches in the history. - Animated letters(Like the website). - Proxy server options. - Supports Writesonic AI (https://writesonic.com) - Support YouChat (https://you.com) Short Video 1: Short Video 2 - Inline Questions: Full Video (ver. 2.0):

I created a plugin to terminate orphaned processes left behind by the IDE during development. You can see the demo here: Source and a release build are available here: https://github.com/SwiftExpat/Deputy Install it manually using these instructions: https://swiftexpat.com/docs/doku.php?id=rttk:deputy:install There is a gentle nag for you to download my compiled demo, which you can decline. The expert is built using TOTAL as a framework: https://github.com/DelphiWorlds/TOTAL If you want to build your own, a step by step to setup your project is here: https://github.com/SwiftExpat/Deputy/wiki/Step-by-Step---Create-Total-plugin-project Enjoy, SwiftExpat

A new IDE plugin aimed at helped debugging multithreaded apps! https://blogs.embarcadero.com/new-ide-plugin-parnassus-parallel-debugger/ The plugin: Displays all thread call stacks next to each other Lets you step over, run, etc a thread by itself, not the whole process Shows CPU usage by thread Editor integration to see where threads are executing, so you can easily see what other threads are in the same area of code and more... This has taken me five years to write! That said, most of that was downtime due to working too much time to spend time on this - this release is the result of working weekends since August. It's version 1, and I plan to add some more features over the next few months.

We tried to do one of our own, but appears that it's not that easy. Seems that we can remove them but IDE will, sometimes at least, write them back after that. Or there is no event for dfm when it is saved (Not making the plugin myself so don't know the latest details.) Maybe there is some cool, Andy Magic Of The Hackering, in the DDevExtensions to do this?? Does anyone have ideas how to get that working? -tee-