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GExperts 1.12 Open Source Programming Tools for Delphi and C++Builder Source code, the FAQ, and the latest news are available at: http://www.gexperts.org/ Please send bug reports and comments using the feedback wizard available in the GExperts about box. You may send other GExperts related queries to the project leader at: Erik Berry <eberry@gexperts.org> or <eb@techie.com> INTRODUCTION ---------------------- GExperts is a set of tools built to increase the productivity of Delphi and C++Builder programmers by adding several features to the IDE. GExperts is developed as Open Source software and is contributed as freeware to the development community. Users are encouraged to download the source code and submit bug fixes and patches as well as new features for inclusion in the GExperts distribution. Gerald Nunn was the principal author of GExperts for almost two years. Gerald has since moved on to other projects, but he kindly donated the GExperts source code the online community so we can continue to enhance and maintain it. Thanks Gerald! THE EXPERTS ---------------------- GExperts contains numerous experts. See the online help (GExperts.hlp) for information on the usage of the experts. KNOWN BUGS ----------------------------------------------- - The compiler replacement option of the Code Proofreader is disabled and unsupported under Delphi 7. This feature may be added later. INSTALLATION ---------------------- GExperts is distributed as a self-installing executable (Setup.exe) that should automatically install the expert library into the IDE. Before executing this file, though, you should manually uninstall any older versions of GExperts. If the GExperts menu does not appear the next time you start your IDE, you can install GExperts manually by setting up a new key using the registry editor (RegEdit.exe). Just create the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\Delphi\X.0\Experts\ or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\C++Builder\X.0\Experts\ Then add a new string value that points to the GExperts DLL: GExperts=C:\Program Files\GExperts\GExpertX.dll or GExperts=C:\Program Files\GExperts\GExpertX_bcb.dll If you experience problems loading GExperts, it is likely due to use of an old or unsupported version of Delphi or C++Builder. Please upgrade to the following versions: - Delphi 7.00 - Delphi 6.02 (Update Pack 2) - Delphi 5.01 (Update Pack 1) - C++Builder 6.02 (Update Pack 2) - C++Builder 5.01 (Update Pack 1) using the free patches available from: http://www.borland.com/downloads/ UNINSTALLATION ---------------------- You should undock all GExperts windows before uninstallation, or the IDE might temporarily leave a blank area where the docked expert used to be on the next IDE restart. Uninstallation of GExperts can be done from the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs Applet. CHANGE LOG ---------------------- VERSION 1.12 (August, 2002) - General: Added support for Delphi 7 and C++Builder 6.01/6.02 - Remove RLE compressed bitmaps to satisfy buggy video drivers - Procedure List: Fix infinite loop parsing some C++ source files - Backup Project: Remove .bpg extension from %PROJECTGROUPNAME% macro - Grep: Never search the same file twice when searching project groups Highlighting a matched search term deals better with leading tabs Deal better with corrupt DFMs, and accidental grep of binary files Search the project file when searching all files in the project - Editor Experts: Header experts use C++ comments under BCB by default - Clean Directories: Added check/uncheck all and invert to popup menus - Editor Toolbar: Don't allow Close and Close All toolbar buttons, since they aren't stable - Replace Components: Support recreating TTabSheet components - Code Proofreader: Fixed an odd AV with lots of help from Eyal Post - Project Dependencies: Allow aborting a dependency scan VERSION 1.11 (February 19, 2002) - General: Fixed problems creating menu items in French IDE editions Added support for Delphi 6.02 and C++Builder 6 (largely untested) - Clipboard History: Options were not always saved - Grep Search: Treat '_' and numeric characters as part of a word when searching in "Whole word" matching mode - Code Proofreader: Allow the same dictionary word to be added to more than one correction language - PE Information: Detect more binary/subsystem/CPU types and report more detailed image/DLL characteristics - Priority Booster: Removed this expert since it wasn't working/useful VERSION 1.1 (January 23, 2002) - General: Conversion to use the new OpenTools API (ToolsAPI.pas) Underlying expert architecture completely redesigned (Stefan) Removed support for Delphi 3, 4 and C++Builder 3, 4 Added Delphi 6 and very limited Kylix support Added support for CLX/XFM forms in many experts Main configuration dialog is resizable All of the database experts use Client DataSets instead of the BDE under Delphi 6 Professional/Enterprise and Delphi 5 Enterprise Lots of minor UI changes, features, and bug fixes.... - To Do List: Support for scanning an entire project group and multiple (semicolon separated) directories - Grep Search: Support for scanning an entire project group and multiple (semicolon separated) directories - Grep Results: Support for showing the context around matched lines Jumping to a match selects the match in the editor (Rick Hollerich) Results can be exported to the clipboard or a file (Rick Hollerich) Multiple matches on a single line are consolidated (Rick Hollerich) New option to always expand matches when searching completes - Message Dialog: Optionally generates a supporting if statement Automatically adds [Q]Dialogs to the uses clause if it is not already present (from Krzysztof Jez) - Debug Window: UI cleanup, added "Hide Toolbar", "Stay on Top", "Pause", and remote clear capability (see DbugIntf.pas) - Code Librarian: Snippets can be stored in a TClientDataSet You must set the read-only attribute on the CodeDB.cds file to safely share it over a network - Code Proofreader: Configuration dialog is resizable Dictionary and Auto Correct entries can be stored in a TClientDataSet and can contain replacement/dictionary strings up to 75 characters - IDE Enhancements: The top-level GExperts menu item can optionally be placed in the Tools menu (Michael Beck) The Object Inspector can be configured to show font names in the drop-down list using each font's typeface - Editor Toolbar: More comprehensive set of possible toolbar buttons Toolbar bitmaps match those used by the IDE (Stefan) Toolbar buttons automatically enable/disable as necessary New button to show/open units used by the current unit (John Hansen) New button to jump to specific positions in a unit (John Hansen) - Editor Experts: New editor expert to sort the selected lines New editor experts to jump to the previous/next occurrence of the current identifier (from Max Vlasov) - Procedure List: Procedure extraction is about 4 times faster Added support for parsing C++ files (Ales Kahanek) - Clean Directories: The unit output and executable output directories can be included in the default list of cleanable directories - Backup Project: Searches both the IDE and project library paths looking for included files. Project parsing progress is reported. - Project Dependencies: Can open any unit found on the library path. - Feedback Wizard: The GExperts about box can bring up a wizard that makes it easy to send "useful" bug reports and other feedback. Please do not send feedback directly to the developers via email any longer. (Stig J°rgensen) - Help File: Updated to reflect the latest changes (James Roberts). VERSION 1.01 (May 19, 2001) - General: All known bugs are fixed - Clean Directories: Recursive deletion was not working under Delphi 3 - Clipboard History: Coexists with other clipboard history applications - Code Librarian: Fixed a possible AV when using "Contract All" - Replace Components: Works for data modules now - Grep Search: Disabled the "Ignore comments" option until it is fixed - PE Information: Allow clipboard copying of the "Exports" tab - Project Option Sets: Fixed option filtering/sorting problems VERSION 1.00 (February, 2001) - General: All of the experts except the Code Proofreader can be dynamically enabled and disabled from the configuration dialog. Modified docked window menus to only activate when the docked form contains the currently focused control. GExperts menu items can now be placed on the IDE's toolbar. Menu shortcuts are no longer lost when loading a project group. - Editor Experts: Fixed a possible range check error in the delimiter experts when the cursor was near the top of a unit. Comment and uncomment experts work around a common IDE AV. Procedure header has two new macros: %RESULT% and %ARGUMENTS%. - Perfect Layout: Improved the results when the Object Inspector is docked into the edit window. Loads data from the right registry key (Thomas Mueller). - Grep Results: Fixed some minor problems opening and setting focus to DFM files when jumping to a grep match. It still isn't perfect. Fixed a possible memory leak. - Replace Components: Works with modules outside the current project. - Editor Toolbar: Improved sizing and positioning with respect to docked windows. - Code Proofreader: The '|' character can be used in AutoCorrect entries to determine the cursor position after a correction. - Code Librarian: Double-clicking a code snippet node copies the text into the code editor and closes the Code Librarian. - To Do List: A cosmetic problem left the to do entry's displayed line number off by one. Now supports jumping to one of multiple to do entries with the exact same comment text. - Class Browser: Works better with method resolution clauses (method redirections), multiple interface inheritance, non-standard calling conventions, multiple variable declarations on a single line, property overrides, non-standard line endings, and is generally more accurate when jumping to or viewing the code for class members. - Favorite Files: Projects, project groups, and packages will by default try to close the current project before opening themselves. Splitter position is saved/restored correctly. The modified flag is set after editing the file list. - Project Option Sets: Fixed an issue preventing setting environment options that were comma delimited strings. - Backup Project: Reports files it is unable to find or open. - Help File: Updated to reflect the latest changes. VERSION .98 (Feb. 17, 2000) - Editor Toolbar: Fixed component/form list toolbar buttons under Delphi 5. - Clipboard History: works correctly under Delphi 3. - Component Grid: Curt Krueger added automatic numbering of context IDs and printing. - PE Information: ArentJan Banck added drag and drop support and updated the internals of this and several other experts. - Procedure List: Scott Mattes submitted changes to allow easier searching and filtering based on objects. Works inside Object Pascal .inc files now. John Hansen and Stefan Hoffmeister fixed focus problems with multiple edit windows open. - Components to Code: Primoz Gabrijelcic added this new expert which allows one to select several components and copy the appropriate code to the clipboard which would create those same components at runtime. Note it does not work with some properties like bitmaps. - Project Option Sets: Stefan Hoffmeister added environment options. - Clean Directories: Stefan Hoffmeister added recursive scanning. Wildcard matching support was added. - Grep Results: Lee Wenger added refresh capability. - Class Browser: ArentJan Banck added the ability to print the reports without requiring Ace Reporter. - Code Proofreader: Configuration option to allow matching words based on the compiler's list of best matches (Puthoon). - Source Export: ArentJan Banck completely rewrote this expert. - Stefan Hoffmeister added IDE current directory protection, implemented better native IDE docking, improved delimiter matching, as well as several other internal cleanups. VERSION .97.1 (September 14, 1999) - Loading toolbar settings from very old versions of GExperts under Delphi 3 no longer causes problems. - Fixed potential AVs when opening batch files and closing with the package window open (OpenTools bug workarounds). - Message view window under Delphi 5 behaves normally with editor integration enabled. - Fixed saving/loading of the Clean Directories settings. - Opening TLB files no longer raises assertions. VERSION .97.0 (August 26, 1999) - To Do List: Recently scanned directories are saved (John Hansen) - Code Proofreader: The configuration settings are now saved correctly. The detection of the current syntax element is more accurate. Lots of other internal changes and fixes (Stefan Hoffmeister). - Editor Experts: The debug statement expert was removed. Use an IDE Code Template instead for this functionality. - Editor Enhancements: Several editor enhancements were added to the configuration dialog (John Hansen, Gerald Nunn, and Stefan Hoffmeister). This includes the cut/copy/paste menu options (see MISCELLANEOUS NOTES below) and the editor toolbar. Daniel Work submitted code to sort the component list button's menu items. The toolbar configuration listbox supports auto-scrolling drag and drop. - IDE Enhancements: New IDE enhancements include flat/3D component palette buttons for version 4+ IDEs. Under Delphi 4 only, you can show the "Attach to Process..." menu item. Remco van Toor submitted some ideas to make docked tab controls multiline, and Stefan integrated this feature into GExperts. You can automatically save your DFMs as text files, to better integrate into version control systems. - Priority Booster: This new expert by Stefan Hoffmeister allows you to set the Win32 priority for the application/thread while compiling. - IDE Docking: Support for IDE docking under version 4+ IDEs for certain experts. Many thanks to Puthoon for his hard work with this task, and Stefan Hoffmeister for testing and ideas. - Help File: The new help file is finished. Thanks to Paul O'Rear for layout and technical assistance. - Project Option Sets: This new expert by John Hansen allows Delphi 4+ users to save off sets of project options and recall them later. It stores the saved data in an OLE Structured Storage file. Stefan Hoffmeister enhanced this expert as well. - Backup Project: Now scans for $INCLUDE and $RESOURCE directives, as well as $I and $R. Added a project group backup option for those IDEs that support project groups and support for wildcards to add and remove files (Stefan Hoffmeister). - Source to HTML: ArentJan Banck enhanced this expert to support copying to the clipboard in several formats. - Replace Components: Replacing across all forms in a project works again - Clipboard History: The clipboard history is persistent across IDE sessions in Delphi 4+ (John Hansen). - General: Puthoon helped restructure the menu code to be more modular. - Class Browser: Reworked the class report (ArentJan Banck) and hierarchy diagram. VERSION .96.2 (April 12, 1999) - IDE Enhancements: Began adding back the many of the old enhancements such as tabs as buttons, tab names in the popup menu, custom fonts for the component palette and object inspector, and a MDI-like Windows menu. Puthoon submitted code to load and unload IDE enhancements at runtime. - Editor Experts: These experts are all back in GExperts now, and are EII compatible (see http://www.toolsfactory.com/eii.html). You can see and configure these experts from the configuration dialog. Fixed an occasional EII crash when dragging and dropping DPR files. - Grep Results: Better keyboard support, and support for drag and drop of files from the results window onto to an icon or a running application (notepad, etc.). Fixed a harmless exception when searching an unsaved project. - Code Librarian: Hides itself when you paste a snippet into the editor - Hook OutputDebugStr: This expert was added back for Delphi 3, thanks to ArentJan Banck and Stefan Hoffmeister. - Code Proofreader: Minor bugfixes and cleanup to the code. It sometimes misdetected when you were editing inside comments. Stefan Hoffmeister and Alex Petrov fixed most of this. The default dictionary word list was expanded to include more common words. You can now import a text file into the dictionary or export the dictionary to a text file. Francois Sorrentino added international keyboard support. The correction history is no longer stored in an exclusive access Paradox database to facilitate running multiple IDEs running at once, and when this expert is disabled, the database is no longer opened. - Procedure List: Fixed an AV parsing implementation procedural types and procedures with embedded tabs (John Hansen). - To Do List: Multi-line to do items were not parsed correctly and were shown as blank lines. Now, the first line of the comment is displayed. Fixed a bug parsing unterminated comments at the end of a unit. New option to keep the to do window visible after jumping to an item. John Hansen submitted code to scan directories or only the open project files for to do items. You can now copy the to do list to the clipboard using Ctrl+C and the expert now supports keyboard commands. - Clean Directories: You can now add any number of custom extensions to be cleaned upon execution (Stefan). - General: Minor consistency/internal changes to many experts. Stefan enhanced C++Builder support for many experts. - OneDForAll: Back in Delphi 3 and BCB 3. It allows you to restrict the IDE to one instance when you execute associated files. - Favorite Files: You can drag and drop files into the favorite files manager from explorer. The drag and drop routines come from Angus Johnson, Anders Melander, and Graham Wideman. You can turn off the file preview pane in the options and the folder tree saves its state between runs. Drag and drop inside the form from files to folders and from folders to folders works again. - Expert Manager: Stefan made some internal changes and enhanced the interface. Several minor bugs were fixed. - ASCII Chart: The hint window can be turned off (Frank Zimmerman) VERSION .96.1 (Jan 23, 1999) - General: With lots of help from Stefan Hoffmeister, the source code compiles and works in Delphi 3 now, and partially works in BCB. Stefan also corrected several minor code problems and moved most of the literal strings into ResourceStrings for future localization purposes. Scott Mattes submitted several minor usability changes/suggestions. All conditional defines were moved to GX_CondDefine.inc. - Edit Writer: Fixed a minor bug that sometimes placed the inserted text at the wrong position (affected MessageDlg, and Code Librarian) - Class Browser: This expert was re-added to GExperts. It compiles both with and without TSyntaxMemo, and several bugs were fixed by Stefan and Erik. It correctly parses methods that are reintroduced, overloaded, contain out parameters, etc. - Procedure List: The display font is now configurable, and the search text is highlighted. This expert should load faster because it now uses Martin Waldenberg's new Pascal parser. Minor inconsistencies in the statusbar text are fixed. You can copy the procedure list to the clipboard with a new button. - Message Dialog: Stefan added BCB support to this expert. - Grep: Fixed a memory leak in print preview. Added an option to use (slower) ANSI compatible case insensitive searching. - Menu: the menu options now appear in the same order they used to with the older Delphi 3 versions - Favorite Files: This expert will compile without TSyntaxMemo, but you don't get syntax highlighting. - PE Information: Several clipping and spacing problems in the PE printout were fixed. Hex mode is active for import ordinals. Stefan Hoffmeister submitted a couple of bugfixes and some great code to speed up reading the import/export list. - Debug Window: You can now copy selected lines to the clipboard, save the log to a file, or double-click an item to see it in a message dialog. - Code Librarian: Compiles with/without TSyntaxMemo. The find and find next functions now work properly. - To Do List: This expert has been added and enhanced. Part of the code comes from John Hansen <John_Hansen@tcsmgmt.com>. You can add comments to your code of the form: {#todo[123] xxx}, and the to do expert will find these and list them in a list, by unit. You can place to do items anywhere in your projects. There is also a new to do keyword editor by ArentJan Banck where you can add your own keywords to the list that are scanned for, and assign them priorities; then you can sort by any list column. - Perfect Layout: Scott Mattes submitted changes to make the custom layout save/restore windows correctly. - Printing: GExperts has obtained a registered version of ACE Reporter. Thanks to Steve Tyrakowski for his donation. - TSyntaxMemo: GExperts only compiles with TSyntaxMemo 2.01.22 and up - Code Proofreader: This is another new expert that corrects your typing mistakes while inside the IDE code editor. It allows you to use Microsoft Word style AutoCorrect, fix capitalization, correct words that are missing or have one extra character in them, and much more. Alex Petrov was kind enough to donate this code to GExperts. VERSION .96 (October 19, 1998) - Clean Directories: Fixed a bug that prevented correctly calculated deleted file sizes and counts. Also fixed a bug where manually added directories were not cleaned and errors during deletion were not reported. Added a few more cleanable file types. - Favorite Files: Bug prevented display of the currently selected fonts - Grep Results: Toolbar buttons were enabled/disabled incorrectly - Removed the "GExperts Loaded" addition to the Delphi splash screen - Clipboard History: You can double-click an item in the list to quickly copy it to the clipboard. - Keyboard Shortcuts: Fixed a rare bug that appeared when trying to set shortcuts for menu items created only after a project is loaded - Favorite Files: Both splitters save their positions. Syntax highlighting works for pas, dpr, sql, c, cpp, html files. Other minor tweaks. - Menu: Several of the menu items have different shortcuts, since Delphi 4 reserves new keys in the code editor. Customizing the shortcuts is still possible using the configuration. The main GExperts menu accelerator was changed to Alt-X, because Alt-G is mapped to Goto Line in the default keyboard layout. Note: Brief and Classic modes use Alt-X for File-Exit (I'm not sure how to work around this). - ASCII Chart: You can press ESC to close the window - Updated the Pascal parser to use Martin Waldenburg's very fast mPasLex 1.3. Thanks, Martin! - Procedure List: Correctly saves the selected search mode and uses the more standard clWindow and clWindowText color scheme - Project Dependencies: You can double-click a file that is in the current project and Delphi will load it. Also, the tree layout has changed, making more obvious which units are in the project, and which have associated forms. There is a new configuration option to scan the entire units for uses clauses, or just scan for the first two. This is useful when you have multiple IFDEFed uses clauses. Sorting the information is now possible by clicking the column headers. - General: Changed the form centering code to account for the taskbar and other system appbars such as the Office toolbar. Renamed the TFile and TFiles classes to TGXFile and TGXFiles to avoid conflicts. - Source: The GExperts source code is now released with each version. If you want to modify the source in a generally useful manner, please contact me for instructions on making it easy to integrate into the main source tree. VERSION .95b (October 5, 1998) - Switched to Jordan Russell's freeware Inno Setup installation utility (using the also excellent Inno Setup Express by Brad Stowers) - Grep regular expressions now handle escaped characters using / in a more standard manner. From Daniel Gerhard <gerhard@parametrix.ch> - Removed the build requirement for RXLib, TUrl, ACE Reporter, TSyntaxMemo, and VCLZip form the source code. You can still do a more complete build of GExperts by defining compiler options as described in GExpertX.dpr (if you have some of these products). - Reformatted all the source code to resemble Borland's VCL and to remove all of the hints and warnings produced by the Delphi compiler - All of the forms were edited for UI and standardization - Pas to HTML expert allows copying to the clipboard - Menu shortcut keys now work before dropping down the GExperts menu - Dependency expert no longer allows editing in the tree, and is faster - Component Replace is smarter about what you're allowed to do and what it selects as defaults - PE Viewer is much faster and has a couple of bugfixes. Speedup courtesy of Alexey Dynnikov <aldyn@tsagi.rssi.ru>. - Clipboard history can optionally start capturing upon Delphi startup - Grep Results paint bug fixed - Grep search adds a checkbox to disable regular expressions and correctly saves your last 20 search parameters - Clean Directory adds several new cleanable file types - Set Tab Order gives better feedback and error messages - Upgraded to VCLZip 2.16, ACE 1.2, and TSyntaxMemo 2.01 - Reorganized Message Dialog Helper and added a new button - Expand All in Grep Results works now - Fixed a bug that prevented adding of new entries in Favorite Files - Stand-alone grep correctly saves and restores settings - Double-clicking in the stand-alone grep will execute the file - The GExperts DLL is about 100K smaller - One potential access violation on shutdown was removed - Minor bugfixes in Expert Manager, Procedure List, Configuration, and several other small changes FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS? ---------------------- - [Unassigned] Integrate file auto-save code - [Unassigned] Port Components to Code to C++Builder - [Unassigned] Create a Windows Scripting Host plugin and COM interface to allow scripts to access the OpenTools API. - [Unassigned] Persistent editor bookmarks - [Unassigned] Save/Restore of editor macros - [Unassigned] Editor expert to select the current identifier - [Unassigned] Replace SortGrid with a TListView and make the various TListViews sortable - [Unassigned] Allow adding some common editor and object inspector actions to the editor toolbar - [Unassigned] Port TEditReader to the new IOTA interfaces - [Unassigned] Add support for hiding the toolbar on dockable experts - [Unassigned] Add word wrapped printing to the To Do List, etc. - [Unassigned] Add GX_MessageBox warnings to the Pascal only experts when under C++Builder? - [Unassigned] Modify To Do expert so that it can display Borland style to do items. The basic parsing code exists, but needs to be surfaced in the user interface. - [Unassigned] Add a standalone version of the Code Librarian - [Unassigned] Add support for | in the header editor experts - [Unassigned] Integrate a full regular expression parser as a compile-time option to the grep search - [Unassigned] To do list filtering support (token, owner, etc.) - [Unassigned] Add a project form list and project unit list search form like the procedure list (Eyal Post has donated one) - [Unassigned] Component naming property editor (new package) - [Unassigned] Allow export/printing in Project Dependencies - [Unassigned] Enhance the Message Dialog to allow copy to clipboard, Borland MessageBoxes, change the captions and default button, and generation of case statements. - [Unassigned] Add support to fire up help for the selected word in the Code Librarian KEY: Erik = Erik Berry <eberry@gexperts.org> Stefan = Stefan Hoffmeister <Stefan.Hoffmeister@econos.de> ArentJan = ArentJan Banck <Arentjan.Banck@davilex.nl> Puthoon = Puthoon <puthoon@puthoon.com> (to claim a task, please email eberry@gexperts.org) MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ---------------------- - After using Replace Components on non-visual components, you should save the form to force the IDE to refresh the non-visual component positions. - The editor toolbar might not show correctly with version 4 or less of the Microsoft common controls DLL. Upgrade to version 5 at: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/ie/comctrlx86.asp The VCL toolbar doesn't support separators when aligned left or right. - The Standard and Personal editions of the Borland IDEs do not support database access, so the experts that require database access (such as the Code Librarian and Code Proofreader) will not be available. - The Code Proofreader can only perform corrections when the editor caret is directly after the word to correct following a change. As a result, pressing enter will not trigger corrections. - If a DFM is opened as text, a subsequent Grep Search can not scan the DFM's associated source files. Delphi does not provide access to the source file buffer. Under C++Builder you might also see duplicated matches for the DFM file when it is being viewed as text. - The IDE enhancements for a multiline component palette and the top-level GExperts menu item location both require an IDE restart before they can be properly activated or deactivated. - Perfect Layout was designed for Delphi 3, and as such will probably never support docking or undocking of windows in later version IDEs. Please use the Desktop saving feature of Delphi 5+ instead if available. - Nothing in GExperts is aware of or takes into account conditional defines, so code that is defined out will still be parsed by GExperts. - Using a high color desktop scheme may cause the help file to show colors improperly. This appears to be a bug in WinHelp. - Source Export only supports background colors when exporting to HTML. THANKS ---------------------- Alexander Halser donated a copy of Help and Manual http://www.helpandmanual.com/ Vincent Parrett donated a copy of FinalBuilder http://www.atozedsoftware.com/ Kevin Boylan donated a copy of VCLZip http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/boylank/ Steven Tyrakowski donated a copy of ACE Reporter http://www.sct-associates.com/ GEXPERTS LICENSE ---------------------- GExperts is copyright 1996-2002 by GExperts, Inc, Erik Berry, and several other authors who have submitted their code for inclusion. This license agreement only covers code written by GExperts, Inc. and Erik Berry. You should contact the other authors concerning their respective copyrights and conditions. The rules governing the use of GExperts and the GExperts source code are derived from the official Open Source Definition, available at http://www.opensource.org/. The conditions and limitations are as follows: Usage of GExperts binary distributions is permitted for all developers. You may not use the GExperts source code to develop proprietary or commercial products including plugins or libraries for those products. You may use the GExperts source code in an Open Source project, under the terms listed below. You may not use the GExperts source code to create and distribute custom versions of GExperts under the "GExperts" name. If you do modify and distribute custom versions of GExperts, the binary distribution must be named differently and clearly marked so users can tell they are not using the official GExperts distribution. A visible and unmodified version of this license must appear in any modified distribution of GExperts. Custom distributions of GExperts must include all of the custom changes as a patch file that can be appplied to the original source code. This restriction is in place to protect the integrity of the original author's source code. 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