GExperts 1.3.28

Released: 2026-04-18

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Changes since 1.3.27

Changes since version 1.3.27 (released 2026-03-21)

New Features

• Grep: Access error messages (missing directories, inaccessible files) now use a dialog with a Details button to hide the potentially long error list, and a "Don't show again" checkbox to suppress the dialog permanently (feature #221)
• Message box framework: TGxMsgBoxAdaptor now supports a GetDetails method to show detail text behind a Details button
• Comment Code expert: When the configured block comment style ({ }, (* *), or /* */) would produce broken nested comments, the expert now offers to fall back to // line comments instead. The "Don't show again" checkbox remembers the choice. The Uncomment expert auto-detects //-commented blocks when a block style is configured (feature #178)
• Message box framework: DoPermanentlySuppress and IsPermanentlySuppressed are now virtual, enabling per-result suppression in subclasses
• Open File expert: New "Project Group" tab shows files from all projects in the project group. The tab is hidden when only a single project is loaded. The Project tab's content has been extracted into a reusable frame (feature #175)
• IDE Form Enhancer: The debugger's Exception dialog (and other IDE message dialogs with only an OK button) can now be closed with Esc (feature #206)
• Configuration: New "Disable IDE license notification" checkbox on the IDE tab writes the LicenseNotificationEnabled registry value to suppress the IDE's license notification popup (feature #202)
• Vertical Tabs: New dockable panel showing open editor files as a vertical list. Single-click to switch files. Supports alphabetical or tab-order sorting, and a context menu with Close File, Close All Other, Copy Path, and Open Containing Folder (feature #224)

Enhancements

• Grep: The match context preview now uses a syntax-highlighted code editor (SynEdit) with IDE editor colors instead of a plain RichEdit. Highlighting adapts automatically to the file type (Pascal, C++, HTML, SQL, XML). Match highlighting (line background + matched text color/bold) is preserved on top of syntax colors.
• Grep: Context match colors configuration now uses a "Use default colors" checkbox instead of a Reset button, matching the pattern used for list colors.
• Grep: Context preview syntax colors now update when switching between light and dark mode (feature #222)

Bug Fixes

• Code Formatter: Nested generic types like TJSON.JsonToObject<TJSONReport<TPrintData>> are now recognized correctly instead of being treated as comparison operators (bug #219)
• Open File expert: Dialog position and size are now saved even when the dialog is cancelled (bug #480)
• Grep: Work around blank docked Grep Results window by calling ForceRedraw after ShowForm
• Auto Switch Desktop: Fixed crash in Debug builds when pressing F12 — GetAsyncKeyState with SmallInt caused a range check error; replaced with GetKeyState and < 0 test (bug #481)
• Vertical Tabs: Fixed file switching not working in Delphi 6/7 by pausing the polling timer during switch. Project and project group files are now filtered from the list (feature #226)
• Uses Clause Manager: Fixed access violation on 64-bit IDE caused by storing a TStringList pointer in the 32-bit TComponent.Tag property, truncating the upper 32 bits

Contributors

• Thomas Mueller (twm)