what useful add-ins do you use?

[CADTenchy]

I came across a delphi site just now, that seems a couple of years old, but is had some good looking add-ins recommended for the Delphi editor.
Some mentioned were:
CnWizards
GExperts
FastMM
MemProof
madexcept

Some of these looked really useful, esp one that showed which end was associated with which beginning (I add comments to me end's so I can see at a later date) but they all seemed reasonably old.

So I was wondering what add-ins people would recommend for Delphi 2007?


Steve (Delphi 2007 & XP)

 

[DelphiAaron]

fastmm is encorporated in delphi 2007 so that isnt needed.
gexperts is a good one to have.

Aaron

 

[Glenn9999]

FastMM is part of the FastCode set of code. Parts of it have shown up in Delphi 2007, but they are really not "add-ins" as opposed to system code replacements to try to increase the efficiency of code at certain "choke points".

For example, with the algorithm simplification I did, the profiler pointed to AnsiPos as one of the major "hotspots" left. I could have replaced it with a FastCode POS function and got about 2 seconds on 5m records.

The compiler stuff is mostly fine to leave alone, but truthfully beyond FastMM (it pays too many dividends to not use) it's only a concern if the system functions present a huge bottleneck in an application you care about performance in.

(I think most of FastCode is going to end up in Delphi anyway if you give it some time, otherwise you can always throw together a unit, assuming your shop is okay with third-party code that is under a potentially restrictive license)

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[sggaunt]

I use Delphi 7
and have

GExperts, I use the search function a lot, its much more useful that the built in text search.

Delphi Speed up (Well I have to take its word for it as to if it does speed anything up or not?)



Steve: N.M.N.F.
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[CADTenchy]

Thanks guys. This is exactly the kind of stuff I was meaning.

The profiler sounds well useful. Even though I read through that thread at the time, that gem went unnoticed. Thanks Glenn.(And I'm using an AnsiPOs too!!!)



Steve (Delphi 2007 & XP)

 

[Glenn9999]

thread102-1457040 would be a useful thread to you, then.

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Those who work hard are rewarded with more work and remembered come time to downsize. Those who hardly work are given a paycheck and ignored completely.

 

[rcloutie]

GExperts is helpful to search / replace a string in all files included in a project.

But since it scanned and modify (why?) all of these files, all accented characters was lost and replaced with a code (hardcoded strings and comments are in french), I had so much trouble to restore original values, that I decided to uninstall the product.

I guess if english is the only language appearing in your code, all is ok... I guess...

Rej Cloutier

 

[CADTenchy]

So far Castalia seems to be the only enhancement that has the one thing I want more than anything else right now:

http://www.delphi-expert.com/castalia/structural_highlighting.html

Are there any free enhancements that have this?


Steve (Delphi 2007 & XP)

 

[DjangMan]

Steve - what version of Delphi are you using? My BDS2006 came with a lite version of Castalia that shows the structural highlighting.

 

[CADTenchy]

I've got Delphi 2007. I can't see any option for Castalia, or get any hits in help?


Steve (Delphi 2007 & XP)

 

[DjangMan]

Try going to the Codegear site and check around in the downloads area. That's where I got mine from. It might have been a promotion, however.