Inspectors
Inspectors allow you to explore details of your application at runtime. Inspectors contain the code to generate the information and visualize it depending on the type of information. They are similar to debug visualizers in the IDE, presenting the information in a more usable form.
Inspectors - visualizers / support tools
Object Plus provides access to component properties and events at runtime
Application Inspector Essential results based on RTL
Dataset Grid Grid view of an TDataset
Query SQL Adhoc query for TFDConnection
Object Plus is the core inspector in Marshal allowing you to inspect the published properties of a component in your application. Objects plus utilizes Object Inspector , a component by TMS from the FNC UI Pack, to inspect properties of your components at runtime with some nice formatting.
Features
Object Plus has 3 tabs to separate the features
Properties
This tab allows you to view the published properties of a component.
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This inspector displays values that are dynamic at runtime. The values are available in Caddie for review later.
These are values that I have needed to inspect at runtime. The values are captured using basic RTL calls and formatted to string for display.
Process values
Application Name
Working Directory
Exectuable Name
Main form

Build Information
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Compiler Version
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Compile Defines
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Compile Options
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System Defines
Path Information
Values for different locations defined in TPath
OS Information
Values of OS build version
Time Information
Values for Timezone information from DateUtils
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This inspector is displayed for all TDataset descendant to allow you to browse the records.
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Export to CSV, XML, HTML (right click to show menu)
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Open dataset if it is closed
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This inspector allows you to execute a query at runtime using an existing Firedac connection.
Features
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Allows you to execute adhoc SQL using the applications TFDConnection
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Export results to CSV, XML, HTML

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- Written by: SwiftExpat
- Category: Inspectors