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2.6 (2009-10-20)

  • Added full support for Delphi 2009 and 2010 for Win32 (CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 and Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010), generic types and anonymous methods.
  • Now detect more instances of issues such as uninitialised variables and unused value assignments.
  • Now detect more hidden symbols such as class properties, fields and methods hidden by method parameters of the same name.
  • Parser and other error message boxes are no longer displayed when Unattended Quiet Mode is set from the command line.
  • No longer display the A1004 Hidden Name message for class properties from the Delphi source folders that are hidden by local parameters, such as "parameter 'Action' hides the property of the same name in Forms.pas" that was occurring for all FormClose event handlers.
  • Functions or procedures without parameters that hide functions or procedures with parameters and vice versa (so could not be confused) no longer fail the Hidden Name check.
  • Locals, parameters etc that have the same name as built in System functions that take parameters (so could not be confused) no longer fail the Hidden Name check.
  • Improved the automated operation log messages and added some basic counts to the log messages.
  • Now automatically include all folders one level below the Delphi Source folder in the default search and include paths.
  • Improved handling of dereferencing procedurals with pointer result types.
  • Fix: Fixed empty automated exported analysis results when grouping the results by module.
  • Fix: Fixed parsing of strict private and strict protected directives for old object types for Delphi 2005 and later.
  • Fix: Currency, PAnsiChar, and PWideChar are now correctly distinct types for function and procedure overloading.
  • Fix: Numerous other minor fixes

2.5 (2007-09-23)

  • Added full support for .NET applications created with Delphi 8, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006 and Delphi 2007 (CodeGear RAD studio 5).
  • Added full support for Delphi 2007 for Win32 and for all the Delphi language extensions in Delphi 2006 and Delphi 2007.
  • Added full compatibility with Windows Vista, including storing CodeHealer configuration files and all data in the application data folder for the current user.
  • Audit and check failures in code that is enclosed by the {$HINTS OFF} and ($HINTS ON} compiler directives are no longer reported.
  • Added an editable list of directive names to exclude from the "directives names used as identifiers" audit results.
  • The source code file path is now displayed after its name and coordinates in the browser window title.
  • Added support for UTF-8 source files.
  • Changed the Exit shortcut key to Ctrl + Q.
  • Fix: Greatly reduced the number of 'false positives' in the results of an analysis.
  • Fix: Improved the handling of conditional expressions in compiler directives.
  • Fix: Improved the automatic detection of the Delphi and BDS version and platform type from a Delphi or BDS project file.
  • Fix: CodeHealer now restores to the correct monitor when it was previously maximised on a secondary monitor.
  • Fix: Significantly improved the healing of code around existing multi-line comments.
  • Fix: Reports are now exported even if the totals do not match their expected values when running unattended.
  • Fix: A large number of other minor fixes

2.1.1 (2006-05-24)

  • Added the ability to select multiple analysis failures and to copy their details to the Windows Clipboard using Ctrl+C.
  • Added tracking of the inclusion point of include files for display in failure messages etc.
  • Browsing for library search path folders now respects substitution macros at the start of the path.
  • CodeHealer now recognises Delphi 2006 projects vs Delphi 2005 e.g. in the Wizard.
  • Can now open and analyse CodeHealer project files that are marked as read only.
  • Added a final line to the exported analysis report that shows the total number of failures that were found.
  • Changed the missing files error message box type from an error to a question and improved its caption and text.
  • No longer prompt for a confirmation when the Save button is clicked after a source file has been healed or modified.
  • CodeHealer now defaults to not requesting confirmation of healing actions before applying them.
  • CodeHealer now imports the Debug source directories from a project file as well as the Library search paths.
  • CodeHealer now defaults to continuing to parse the project after a parse error.
  • CodeHealer now defaults to allowing editing in the source code browser.
  • CodeHealer now sets a default exported report file extension if none was specified on the command line.
  • Fix: Assignment to certain pointer arithmetic expressions was being flagged as assignment to a constant.
  • Fix: Fixed occasional exception on exit from CodeHealer due to a timing issue bug in the MS HTML Help viewer.
  • Fix: Fixed the healing of an unused property with a default property specifier.
  • Fix: WideStrings were always being treated as uninitialised rather than respecting the preference settings for strings.
  • Fix: Fixed healing of unused resource strings and thread variables.
  • Fix: Fixed assorted special case parsing errors and false positives.
  • Fix: Automated operation now exports the analysis results report even if there are no failures.
  • Fix: Other minor fixes

2.1 (2006-03-24)

  • Added transparent and complete parsing of both text and binary Delphi form files for symbol usage tracking and analysis.
  • Added comprehensive command line parameters for automated build tools such as Automated Build Studio and FinalBuilder.
  • Can now select multiple modules on the metrics results to get totals for the selected modules.
  • Added calculation of cyclomatic complexity and some other counts to the metrics results.
  • Added a new check for assignment to constant items.
  • Added the conditional symbol CODEHEALERANALYSIS that is always defined when analysing with CodeHealer.
  • Enabled the preference setting to allow editing of source files in the source code browser.
  • Significantly speeded up the metrics analysis by not updating the view of the module list until the analysis is done.
  • Added check settings for including or excluding record fields to the unreferenced globals and unreferenced locals checks.
  • Set the initial sort order for the analysis failures to description within module for more consistent reports.
  • Changed the order of folder checking to allow the Delphi library folders to be manually excluded from processing.
  • Moved the Undo Healing button next to the Heal Code button.
  • Added Ctrl key shortcuts to the Analysis and Metrics toolbar buttons.
  • Added a check to the start of the install and uninstall process for any of the IDE DLLs still being in use.
  • Added a hidden names audit preference to include or exclude names from a different syntactic class.
  • Added optional installation of Desktop and Quick Launch icons for CodeHealer.
  • Ctrl Up and Ctrl Down can now be used to scroll tree lists.
  • The Browse buttons on various edit controls can now be activated with Ctrl + Enter.
  • Added a preference to optionally store a new CodeHealer project in the same folder as the first source file.
  • Added a project preference setting to control whether the metrics results copy to the Clipboard and export to CSV arranged in lines or columns, and now default to arranging them in lines.
  • Fix: Eliminated a large number of false positives in all categories of checks, and in particular in the Hidden Names, Unused Values and Uninitialised Variables checks.
  • Fix: Numerous other fixes and improvements.

2.0 (2005-11-30)

  • Initial version 2 release.
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