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- Project Analyzer - Version history
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- Major differences v4.1 v3.1
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- Supported VB versions 3-5 3-4
- Windows versions Win 95/NT Win 3.x
- New add-in Project Graph
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- v4.x also has lots of other new features.
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- Detailed Version History
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-
- v4.1.09 April 1998
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Empty DLL file names prevented from appearing
- 2. Registration of Project Graph is no longer disabled
- if Project Printer is registered.
-
- v4.1.08 April 1998
- *** Enhancement ***
- 1. Problem Report includes a "Sizable Forms without
- Resize event" section
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. The Minimized property of VB3 Forms captured correctly
- 2. Fixed handling of \\SERVER style path names
- 3. Removed a few false alarms in "Forms with ControlBox but
- without icon" on the Problem Report
-
- v4.1.07 March 1998
- *** Enhancement ***
- 1. The Copy command in the Display report window now copies
- formatted text (RTF).
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Nested references (MyClass.MyClass.MyMember) handled
- correctly
- 2. Removed a few false references to Public variables/constants
- of form/class modules
-
- v4.1.06 March 1998
- *** New feature ***
- 1. Comment directives to define dead entities as used. See the
- help file for Comment directives.
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Fixed crashing in VB Browser with complex procedures
- 2. Toolbar buttons disabled if no project analyzed
- 3. Fixed a problem 1 reference was not found in a special case.
- This occurred when there were 2^n procedures, for example.
- References to the last procedure were not detected, because
- of a rounding error: Int(Log(8) / Log(2)) = 2, although
- mathematically it is 3.
- 4. Fixed jamming of the FRX view when it can't read the contents
- of a FRX file.
- 5. Fixed a scope problem where global variables/constants
- got extra references in certain name shadowing cases.
-
-
- v4.1.05 February 1998
- A few little bug fixes
-
- *** New feature ***
- 1. Command line switch: /ERRORIGNORE
- Ignore most errors that occur during analysis phases 1 & 2
- without an error message.
-
- v4.1.04 February 1998
- *** New feature ***
- 1. Project Printer has a new option: Comment manual.
- This feature collects comments and formats them into a
- code manual like report. Comments must use a special syntax,
- as described in the Help file.
-
- *** Minor enhancements ***
- 1. Project Printer can group procedures by their type:
- Sub/Function/Event/Property
- 2. Project Graph includes an Expand command in the right-click
- menu.
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Fixed a bug with nested #If...#End If directives
-
- *** Terminology change ***
- 1. Public Enums and Types in Public classes (with Attribute
- VB_Exposed set) are not reported as dead, because they may be
- used outside the current project by another project.
-
- v4.1.03 January 1998
- *** Bug fix ***
- 1. Fixed "Unexpected error" at start-up
- Compiled with original VB 5.0 DLLs and OCXs
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-
- v4.1.02 January 1998
- Compiled with some DLLs and OCXs that were newer than those that
- with VB 5.0 => Didn't work with the original DLLs
- ("Unexpected error")
-
- *** Bug fix ***
- 1. Fixed handling of #compiler directives with 'comments
-
- v4.1.01 January 1998
- *** Major new features ***
- 1. New add-in, Project Graph.
- 2. Support for compiler directives
- (#Const, #If..#ElseIf..#Else..#End If)
- 3. The Hypertext, Procedure Details and File Details windows
- merged into VB Browser
-
- *** Minor enhancements ***
- 1. Added more sophisticated error messages to the analysis
- 2. Support for line numbers (but not for line labels)
- 3. Comments and Attribute statements displayed with a special
- color in the Hypertext window
- 4. Report|File details now lists HelpContextIDs for Controls
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Vars/consts in (declarations) are not falsely referenced by
- DLL procedure declarations
- 2. Fixed a problem with subscripts and multi-dimensional arrays.
- Example: MyArray(1, 2) = 1234
- This is now correctly detected as an assignment to MyArray, not
- just a reference.
- 3. A ReDim Preserve statement doesn't create a new array
- 4. UserControls and UserDocuments don't have a HelpContextID
- property, so the Problem Report doesn't report missing
- HelpContextID's for these module types, but only for Forms
- and PropertyPages.
- 5. Calls to Private UserControls detected
- 6. Supports Control references. Calls to Control methods and
- properties are not mistaken for other things.
- 7. Fixed a problem where hyperlink hotspots appeared in strange
- places
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- v4.0.08 December 1997
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. References to vars/consts defined in the (declarations)
- section handled properly (an LCase function was missing...)
- 2. Unformatted display reports are not limited to 32K (fixed
- again)
- 3. Clipboard Copy from Formatted display reports is not limited
- to 32K
- 4. Added error detection to the analysis. Fixed 2 bugs that
- caused the rest of the analysis of a module to be skipped in
- phase 2/2. This caused lots of dead things with no apparent
- reason in previous versions.
- 5. Fixed an error that happened when the Called by window
- (from the Hypertext window) was empty and Show was pressed.
-
-
- v4.0.07 November 1997
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Unformatted display reports are not limited to 32K
- 2. Fixed "dead" procedures that were caused by calls from either
- a) Implemented members of abstract base classes
- b) Public member procedures of public classes
- 3. Public member procedures of public classes are not dead
- (see project.hlp for Terminology)
- 4. "Assigned only" variables in the Vars & Consts window
- and File Details window reported correctly.
- 5. Private Types/Enums are not reported as Needless Globals
- 6. Procedure boundaries detected as defined in VB. This means
- that comments between End Sub and the next Sub statement
- belong to the same procedure as in VB's editor.
- 7. VB 5.0: Ignores anything in the [RVB] section of a .vbp file
- 8. Procedures ending with a type character ($%&!#@) handled
- correctly
- 9. Fixed a bug in the Name shadowing report that caused
- Error #10 when opening another project for analysis.
-
- v4.0.06 November 1997
- *** Minor enhancements ***
- 1. The max number of calls from a procedure to other procedures
- increased to 100. The same holds for calls from a module to
- other modules.
- 2. If the max number of calls from a procedure is exceeded, it
- will not result in "dead" procedures that are not dead in
- reality.
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. No crash in the Vars & consts window when the list is
- empty. The same fix for the References window.
- 2. Modules with only a (declarations) section (and no
- procedures) are not skipped in Phase 2/2
-
- *** Changes ***
- 1. If project.exe is older than 6 months, displays a message
- every other month telling to check if a newer version is
- available.
- 2. The unregistered version shows a questionnaire about Project
- Analyzer, which the user can fill in and email to VBShop
-
- v4.0.05 October 1997
- *** Minor enhancements ***
- 1. In the unregistered version, strike-out of dead things
- is now enabled in the Hypertext window, as well as in
- Project Printer
- 2. Added some more room for the project name under the project
- icon in the main window
- 3. Object variable references, assignments and deadness are now
- defined differently from that of non-object variables. See
- project.hlp for Terminology for more details. The most
- important change is that an object variable is considered
- live if it contains an object (even if there are no
- calls to the methods and properties of the object).
- 4. Creates descriptions for .sud and .sup files in the Registry
- if none exists
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Correctly handles multiple Private Declare statements with
- the same procedure name
- 2. Ignores commented Declare statements, as well as comments
- after any Sub|Function|Property statements
- 3. The Hypertext window strikes out dead Types/Enums
- 4. Type and Enum references are counted in a
- Sub|Function|Property statement too
- 5. References to procedure Let, Set, and Get are now more exact
- than before. Also references to MyClass(123).MyProperty
- work, no problem with the subscript.
- 6. Fixed Problem report: Minimizable forms without icon and
- Forms with ControlBox but without icon.
- 7. Fixed a bug with Type blocks containing a member named Type
- 8. Double click in the procedure list of the main window now
- responds to the Double click setting of General options
- 7. The Nested conditionals metric is now calculated correctly
- 8. Support for the syntax Optional MyParam = DefaultValue
- for procedure parameters
- 9. Fixed a bug in the Name shadowing report that caused
- Property Lets/Gets/Sets being reported as shadowing each
- other
- 10. Special characters (other than A-Z a-z, like Σ÷Θ etc.) are
- handled OK in RTF to Help reports
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-
- v4.0.04 October 1997
- *** Minor enhancements ***
- 1. Page up/down in the Hypertext window now moves a whole page
- at a time, not just 10 rows as it did before
- 2. Increased the number of last opened files in the File menu
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Removed extra lines (dead vars/consts) at the beginning of
- Project summary report
- 2. Added a debug button to find the reason why the rare
- error #10 occurs
- 3. Fixed a crash when the Hypertext window was resized too small
- 4. Corrected a refresh bug in the Metrics window
- 5. Fixed a problem in the Call Tree window that caused the last
- item of a branch to "forget" its descendants
-
-
- v4.0.03 September 1997
- *** Minor enhancements ***
- 1. List variables / constants window looks better
-
- *** Minor new features ***
- 1. Report on References to vars/consts (from vars/consts window)
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Fixed a bug that limited figures in the Design quality report,
- Cyclomatic complexity to 3 digits.
- 2. Events driven by objects declared WithEvents are not "dead"
- 3. Added more error detection to start of analysis to find the
- reason for error #10
- 4. Looks better also with non-standard color schemes
- 5. Fixed a bug with the Summary report: Dead vars/consts count
-
- v4.0.02 September 1997
- *** Minor enhancements ***
- 1. Public methods and properties of ActiveX controls are not
- reported as dead (in OCX projects)
- 2. Super Project Analyzer reads .vbg files too
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Fixed an Overflow bug in Project Printer
- (Show metrics checked)
- 2. Fixed a hang in analysis phase 2/2
- 3. Added error detection to start of analysis to overcome
- error #10
-
- v4.0.01 September 1997
- *** Minor enhancements ***
- 1. DLL report turned into Library report that includes
- OCX and VBX files too, as well as DLLs checked in the
- References window (VB 4.0 and later)
- 2. Design quality report calculates Type/Enum names in
- 'Average identifier length'
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Fixed bug with Static Subs/Functions that caused extra Static
- variables named Sub/Function to be created
- 2. Fixed bug with array declarations
- 3. Project Analyzer can now be minimized again
- 4. Dead local vars/consts in event procedures are now reported
- (except for event parameters - it wouldn't be wise to list
- those because they can't be removed by the programmer)
- 5. Added error handling to printer reports
- 6. Fixed procedure names in Name shadowing report, part
- Global/module-level vars & consts shadowed by proc-level
- vars & consts
- 7. Gray windows instead of colorful ones option works in the
- Archive window too
- 8. Fixed Problem report - Forms without icons
- 9. Fixed Project summary report: 'Smallest source file' and
- 'Number of identifiers' (VB 4 & 5 only)
- 10. Summary report, VB 3.0 only: Global name table and
- Global symbol table sizes include Types
- 11. Fixed bug with "dead" Types/Enums (Project Analyzer
- and Super Project Analyzer in particular)
- 12. Type/Enum declarations will now contain no comments
- 13. A private variable called "Enum" will not show up any more
-
- v3.9.01 August 1997
- BETA *** Major new feature ***
- 1. Support for VB 5.0
- Supports most of the new VB5 file types, like .PAG, .CTL
-
- *** Major enhancements ***
- 1. FRX view supports GIF, JPEG and some textual data types
- like TextBox.Text, ListBox.List, ListBox.ItemData and
- UserControl.PropertyPages
- 2. You can extract pictures from .FRX to a separate file
- 3. User-defined Types analyzed, as well as Enums.
- They are included on Needless Globals and Problem Report.
- 4. New Call tree window
- 5. It's faster
-
- *** Minor enhancements ***
- 1. Attribute statements (internal VB properties in source
- files) are italicized in Hypertext and Project Printer
- 2. References (like .tlb files) show up in the project file
- list (The same files are shown in VB5 by clicking at
- Project|References menu command)
- 3. Long lines in reports to Display are wrapped
- 4. Support for Help Workshop (HCW.EXE, RTF to HLP reports)
-
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. Incorrect references from Property Get to
- Property Set/Let are discarded
- 2. Attribute statements (internal VB properties in source
- files) are ignored when code is being analyzed
- 3. Fixed module names in Procedure details window
- 4. Fixed module and procedure names in List procedures
-
- *** Some minor changes ***
- 1. Moved some options from Options menu to
- Options|General options dialog box
- 2. Doesn't use project.ini any more, saves the settings in
- the system registry
- 3. Support for .wri files removed
- 4. Doesn't normalize procedure/variable/constant declarations
- (formerly normalized e.g. Dim, Private, Static etc. into
- "Private" and Global & Public into "Public")
- 5. Adds the Analyze verb to .vbp and .mak files.
- When you right-click a VB project file in the Windows
- Explorer, select Analyze to run Project Analyzer.
-
- *** Some VB5 features implemented ***
- 1. Accepts all then new types of VB source files and all
- the new project types like ActiveXControl
- 2. FRX view shows the new binary file types like .PGX,
- .CTX etc.
- 3. An ActiveXControl file (.CTL) may refer to a PropertyPage
- file (.PAG) with the PropertyPages property
- 4. WithEvents keyword
- 5. Enums
- 6. Related Documents
-
- v3.1.08 July 1997
- *** Bug fixes ***
- 1. ReDim'd local arrays & array parameters handled correctly
- 2. Local variables/constants can now be dead too
- 3. Constant references in the (declarations) section
- are handled correctly
- 4. Fixed an error in the Design quality report
- 5. Added error handling to option Report to File
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- v3.1 Old version with add-ins (VB 3.0-4.0)
- v3.0 Old version (VB 3.0-4.0)
- v2.9 Beta version (VB 3.0-4.0)
- v2.x Old version (VB 3.0 only)
- v1.x Initial version (VB 3.0 only)
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