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Friend of Delphi v1.2 - Download (249 kb) - Freeware - Released June 22, 2002
What is it?This is a small collection of utilities rolled into one program:
Add or remove comment characters (//) to/from a block of code lines, get the key value of any key, a messagebox wizard, a comment frame wizard, a color picker, a utility to update the paths in the dsk file after moving/copying a project, a place to collect one-line snippets etc.
Get key values
Click Friend of Delphi (to activate it) and then press a key on your keyboard. On Friend of Delphi will then appear this information: the decimal value of the key, the virtual keycode (VK_CODE) and the name of the key.
Save and retrieve one-line snippets
Here you can keep web addresses, special characters, copyright information etc.
The red button
Click the red button to get the value of the mouse button (i.e. mbRight is the right mouse button).
You can configure the button to open the Messagebox wizard, the Color picker, to exit etc.
Look in the 'Red button...' menu.
Add/remove comment chars
To add or remove '//' to/from a number of code lines at once just select and copy the code lines (Ctrl+C). Then click the plus button to add //, or click the minus button to remove //. Then paste the lines back (Ctrl+V).
The menu
Right-click the app to get to the menu. From there you can select:
- Color Pickup (screen shot), which will show the color under the cursor as TColor, HTML color (hexadecimal) and RGB values.
- Copy Caption, that puts on the clipboard the information that appears on the FoD window when you press a button.
- Fix dsk file (screen shot), which will update paths in the dsk file after moving/copying a project. Just drop the folder with the moved/copied project onto the window and check those paths you want to update.
- Fix line breaks, that attempts to fix bad line breaks from code you found on the internet.
- Fix parantheses, that will remove extra spaces from parantheses in code copied to the clipboard.
- Frame wizard (screen shot), which puts a comment or a function description into a frame. 3 templates can be saved.
- Messagebox wizard, which makes it a snap to make code for a messagebox.
- Snippets, where you can save 1 line snippets (web addresses, special chars etc).
- Virtual-key codes (screen shot), which is a list of all the virtual-key codes (VK_CONTROL, VK_ESCAPE etc) that Windows supports.
- What utility to open when you click the red button.
Friend of Delphi doesn't touch the registry at all. So to uninstall just delete its folder.
Delphi Comment v1.2 - Download (143 kb) - Freeware
If you use '//' for your comments, this utility is useful. Use it to put or remove '//' from a number of code lines at once. Lies on top and takes up very little room on the screen.
Works like this:
Select and copy the code lines (Ctrl+C) and click the plus button to add //, or click the minus button to remove //. Then paste the lines back (Ctrl+V).
The button on the right side removes extra spaces in parentheses in the code. This code:
if Pos( '%', s ) > 0 then
Delete( s, Pos( '%', s ), length( s ) );
if ( ( length( s ) > 0 ) and
( s[1] = '"' ) ) then
Delete( s, 1, 1 );
if ( ( length( s ) > 0 ) and
( s[length( s )] = '"' ) ) then
Delete( s, Length( s ), 1 );
while ( ( length( s ) > 0 ) and
( ( s[length( s )] = #32 ) or
( s[length( s )] = '"' ) ) ) do
Delete( s, Length( s ), 1 );
will be changed to look like this:
if Pos('%', s) > 0 then
Delete(s, Pos('%', s), length(s));
if ((length(s) > 0) and
(s[1] = '"')) then
Delete(s, 1, 1);
if ((length(s) > 0) and
(s[length(s)] = '"')) then
Delete(s, Length(s), 1);
while ((length(s) > 0) and
((s[length(s)] = #32) or
(s[length(s)] = '"'))) do
Delete(s, Length(s), 1);
Delphi Key Values v1.2 - Download (161 kb) - Freeware
When this utility has the focus you can hit a key (on your keyboard) and get the key value. That's useful when you have to catch key values in events. It shows key value for ALL keys, except the Print Screen key.
Click the red button to get the value of the mouse button (i.e. mbRight is the right mouse button).
Right-click it to get to the menu. From there you can choose Virtual-key codes, which is a list of all the virtual-key codes (VK_CONTROL, VK_ESCAPE etc) that Windows supports.
Lies on top and takes up very little room on the screen.
Updated October 31, 2005 (insignificant changes to link texts)
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