GEXPERTS

   Everything you need...

In last article, I was trying to bring you closely to that magnificent world of Expert and Wizards in Delphi. Now, it's time to see those Wizards in action. Read on to find out more about one of the best collection of Delphi Experts: GEXPERTS. GExperts consists of many different Delphi IDE experts, designed to make the Delphi programmer's life just a little bit easier (or much easier as you will see). This is an excellent free collection of more than 25 experts for 32 bit Delphi that should find a permanent place on your menu bar. GExperts is developed as Open Source software and is contributed as freeware to the Delphi community. Users are encouraged to download the free source code and submit bug fixes and patches as well as new features for inclusion in the GExperts distribution. This set of tools is frequently updated.

   Action
There are far too many experts and wizards in this unique collection so I'll present just some of them. As you will se some of the experts are code oriented and some are form oriented (what I mean is that you can call them while editing code or designing forms).

Procedure List

This expert enables you to view a list of procedures, functions, constructors and destructors in the current unit and jump to a selected one. This expert is very useful if your Pascal code exceeds the number of lines you can "control".

Greap Search - Results
The Grep expert enables you to quickly and easily locate text in multiple files. You can search all files in your project, including DFMs, all currently open files, the entire project directory or a user specified directory. Once you have entered the search criteria, results will be shown in the Grep Results window.

Code Librarian

The Code Librarian expert enables you to organize and access often-used code snippets. It's an easy way to store the various code items that you use often. You can even freely download more than 100 code snippets from Gexpert web site.

Message Dialog Expert

This expert provides an easy and convenient way to enter message dialog code into the Delphi Editor. Simply fill out the fields shown and the expert will generate the required MessageDlg code. Check this article if you want the dialog to appear centered inside a form (not screen).

MessageDlg('Stop.
  Increase your productivity with Gexperts!'
  ,mtWarning, [mbOK], 0);

   Other Experts
As you can see, every single expert in this collection will help you build your Delphi projects more quickly and more efficiently. What follows is a list of some of the remaining experts in collection. You can find more about all experts here.