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A new release of XE Plus Pack is now available to download.

For Delphi XE – http://www.jed-software.com/files/XEPlusPackTrial.zip

For Delphi XE2 – http://www.jed-software.com/files/XE2PlusPackTrial.zip

NOTE: Update 4 must be installed for the Delphi XE2 version.

Available Experts

XE Plus Pack is a collection of IDE Experts, component editors and property editors available for either Delphi XE or Delphi XE2.

Currently XE Plus Pack consists of eight experts:

1. Visual Forms (previously available as a separate product)
2. Activate Project
3. File Actions
4. Remember IDE Tree Options
5. Find Bar Alignment
6. New Code Template
7. Bookmark Guide (new in Release 6)
8. Resolution Selector (new in Release 6)
9. Mouse Scroll Form Designer (new in Release 8 )
10. Structure Pane Enhancements (new in Release 8 )
11. Help Shutdown (shutdown DExplorer.exe on IDE shutdown) (new in Release 8 )

Mouse Scroll Form Designer

When the designed form gets too large to fit within the bounds of the embedded form designer, simply use the mouse wheel to scroll the hidden portion of the form into view.

• This feature supports vertical and horizontal scrolling.
• Hold down the control key to scroll horizontally if your mouse only supports vertical scrolling.

NOTE: In XE2, this expert doesn’t always work correctly with the FireMonkey designer. The FireMonkey designer doesn’t play very nice with the IDE and has a number of quirks and inconsistencies. I will continue to investigate making this work nicely in future releases.

Structure Pane Enhancements

This expert has been totally driven by an XE Plus Pack user and would prove especially helpful for other users that use the Floating Form designer layout. This experts helps fix a number of deficencies when dealing with using the structure pane with the floating form designer.

• Add an editor shortcut key combination to collapse the content of the structure pane.
• Optionally make the structure pane the active window after the collapse has occurred.
• Collapse the structure pane when navigating between source code editors.
• (IDE BUG FIX) When using the floating form designer, make sure the source editor structure view is available when moving between the designed form and the source editor for the form.

Help Shutdown

Makes sure the help system is shutdown when the IDE is closed. All instances of “dexplore.exe” are terminated.

What’s coming up

Release 9

1. Options Import/Export utility.
2. Path property editor for FireMonkey

Expected release date – July/August 2012

Release 10

Two new experts will be introduced.

1. Smart Desktops
2. Watch Property Groups

Expected release date – August/September 2012.

Disclaimer: Dates and features mentioned for upcoming versions may change.

A new version of JSDialog Pack is now available to registered users with valid maintenance. If you haven’t received an email with the latest version – please contact me.

Highlighted Additions

This new version includes support for updated progress bar usage on the task bar under Windows 7.

New ShowOnTaskBar property

Also included are new wrapper methods:

• New overloaded version of VerifyMessage to support footers. (Declared in JSDialogs.pas)
• New InputQueryVerification method which displays an input query style dialog with the verification checkbox visible. (Declared in JSEditDialogs.pas)
• Also it is now possible to use your custom TJSEditDialog descendant for use in the edit dialog wrapper methods. Just set the new JSEditDialogClass variable in the JSEdtiDialog.pas unit to your new descendant.

Change Log

• Add ability to display progress on the task bar under Windows 7
• Fix memory management issue with non-modal dialogs
• Fix unique name clashes
• Support retrieving a button on the dialog by using its expected result value
• Make sure dialog is updated when the glyph property is changed
• Make sure using the SetProgressState method to change the state of the progress bar updates the progress bar in the dialog and also on the task bar
• Change the UpdateProgress methods to functions that return the current value of the progress bar after being updated
• Improve color usage in custom styled applications
• New overload of the VerifyMessage wrapper method to allow setting footer information
• Allow setting of the EditValue property in TJSEditDialog descendants
• New event OnSetEditValue for TJSEditDialog descendants
• Support opening files (prefix content location with “file” instead of “http“) when using the EditType of etHTML
• New wrapper method InputQueryVerification that displays an InputQuery dialog with a checkbox on it
• Allow specifying a default TJSEditDialog class to be used when invoking one of the TJSEditDialog wrapper methods. Set the JSEditDialogClass variable to change the default class.

In celebration of my daughter turning 18 in a few days, we are offering 18% off JSDialog Pack orders.

Just use the coupon code MADDIE18 to get the discount.

http://www.jed-software.com/jsd_purchase.htm

Just in time for the next release, which will occur before June.

http://www.jed-software.com/jsd.htm