Generating a new Random GUID in the Delphi IDE

Question

How I can generate a random new GUID inside of the Dephi IDE?

I am using Delphi 2007.

Answer 1

Just press Ctrl + Shift + G

Answer 2

Ctrl+Shift+G will place a new GUID at the current position in the editor.

It's formatted for use as an interface IID, i.e. with enclosing square brackets - [] - , but once you've got the GUID in the text editor you can do whatever you want with it - Copy/Cut it to the clipboard etc

Answer 3

I had wondered why this didn't work for me, but now I found out that it depends on the selected keyboard-layout in the Delphi-Options (Options->Editor-Options->Keyboard).

With the classic IDE layout it really is Ctrl+Shift+G, but I usually use the VisualStudio-Emulation and there it is Ctrl+Alt+G instead.