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Delphi 8 IDE tricks - Error Insight

By Zarko Gajic, About.com

Delphi 8 IDE is full of new features, but some of them are hidden from you. For example, Error Insight will constantly check the code you type - in case of any error, the little red wavy line will appear on the line where the syntax error is. Holding the mouse over the red wavy line will show why the error occurred (in a hint window).

To enable Code Editor Error Insight feature, you'll need to edit registry. By default, Delphi 8 registry settings are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\BDS\2.0.
Locate the "Globals" key (represented as a tree-item-folder in Regedit) and add a string value named "ShowMeProblemsCorbin" containing a value of 1.

Note: you might need to register the ToolsAPI type library. Go to the command prompt and run a line like:
tregsvr -s -t Borland.Studio.ToolsAPI.tlb

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