Comments on: Announcing the SmartInspect Delphi Plugin (Beta)

By: Gurock Software Blog » Misc SmartInspect 3.0 Library Improvements

Gurock Software Blog » Misc SmartInspect 3.0 Library Improvements — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:02:30 +0000

[...] Plugin enables you to automatically add Enter- and LeaveMethod calls to your Delphi code. We did a video of the instrumenter when the first beta was [...]

By: Dennis Gurock

Dennis Gurock — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:47:39 +0000

Hi Tim, great to hear that you like the Delphi plugin. We will look into instrumenting TrackMethod, although the first official release (with the 3.0) probably won’t include support for this.

By: Tim Tillotson

Tim Tillotson — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:22:39 +0000

This is very useful. It would also be nice to insert TrackMethod calls instead, as code that exits or throws exceptions currently isn’t handled with just the EnterMethod/LeaveMethod calls. Macros on Enter/Leave method or full source for the plugins could also be used to accomplish the same thing very easily.

By: Gurock Software Blog » DGrok Delphi Grammar

Gurock Software Blog » DGrok Delphi Grammar — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:56:28 +0000

[...] had recently the need for a Delphi parser for our SmartInspect Delphi plugin. Because we couldn’t find one that suited our needs, we had to write our own one (an [...]

By: Dennis Gurock

Dennis Gurock — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:01:34 +0000

Glad you found it useful Lachlan. An option to prevent instrumenting inline functions shouldn’t be too difficult, as we are already detecting method modifiers. We will look into it for a future beta/release.

By: Lachlan Gemmell

Lachlan Gemmell — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:23:32 +0000

This is really handy thanks. One suggestion, there should be an option to prevent instrumenting methods marked inline as these are usually small and simple enough that instrumenting them only adds to the noise level.