New Filter Exceptions expert in GExperts
2020-07-13 by dummzeuch
2020-07-13 by dummzeuch
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I my last GExperts related blog post I wrote about the new “Close Exception Notification” expert which I just had added to GExperts. It was a hack that hooked the Exception Notification dialog.
This spawned a discussion in the international Delphi Praxis forum and resulted in a rewrite of the expert. It’s now called “Filter Exception” expert and instead of hooking the dialog it directly hooks into the code that shows this dialog. Thus it prevents the dialog from being shown for filtered exceptions.
I have to thank Mahdi Safsafi of Delphi Detours Library fame for the detective work that lead to to this hooking code.
In that same discussion Der schöne Günther suggested to add a project scope to the filtering. I have implemented that too.
So now the expert can filter on:
That means it will no longer annoy me with them while I am debugging GExperts but will still show them for other projects.
The filter details look like this:
It’s also possible to add a filter for the current debug session only, which means that it will be deleted automatically once the debug session ends.
Unfortunately hooking of the code is only available for Delphi 2005 and later. Older versions still have got to hook the Exception Notification dialog.
If you want to test this new functionality, you’ll have to compile your own dll. Try it, it’s not rocket science!
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I my last GExperts related blog post I wrote about the new “Close Exception Notification” expert which I just had added to GExperts. It was a hack that hooked the Exception Notification dialog.
This spawned a discussion in the international Delphi Praxis forum and resulted in a rewrite of the expert. It’s now called “Filter Exception” expert and instead of hooking the dialog it directly hooks into the code that shows this dialog. Thus it prevents the dialog from being shown for filtered exceptions.
I have to thank Mahdi Safsafi of Delphi Detours Library fame for the detective work that lead to to this hooking code.
In that same discussion Der schöne Günther suggested to add a project scope to the filtering. I have implemented that too.
So now the expert can filter on:
- Project name, which is a regular expression.
- Exception class
- Exception message, which again is a regular expression
That means it will no longer annoy me with them while I am debugging GExperts but will still show them for other projects.
The filter details look like this:
It’s also possible to add a filter for the current debug session only, which means that it will be deleted automatically once the debug session ends.
Unfortunately hooking of the code is only available for Delphi 2005 and later. Older versions still have got to hook the Exception Notification dialog.
If you want to test this new functionality, you’ll have to compile your own dll. Try it, it’s not rocket science!
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