ProDiff for PowerBuilder BETA

Thanks for taking the time to participate in the ProDiff BETA.

The name has changed to protect the innocent! A few months ago someone else started using the CodeCompare name so I've had to renamed my new version of PBDelta to ProDiff. This will be the last RC as the amount of Bugs has dropped off a lot and this RC is only being released due to the name change.

If you spot any references to the name CodeCompare please let me know!!!!!! :-)

I've put up the site ready for release, to download please visit www.pro-diff.com.

21/November - RELEASED

Fixed the SDI mode window, it was still using CodeCompare as the title
Added the Options and Help Icons to the SDI toolbar
Fixed the ProDiff icon on the SDI window
Added an F1 key handler for Help in the SDI window

19/November - RC 9

Fixed a bug in the app close down, any open sheets where not having there runtime settings saved.

18/November - RC 8

Fixed a bug in the DW stateless summary compare, if the same column was used twice it would report there was a change but the full diff reported no changes correctly
Fixed a bug in the clipboard compare, the filename titlebar did not check the filename was not passed
Renamed the CodeCompare to ProDiff (someone else has used the name while I've been in development) :-(
Changed CCF files to PFS files
Changed CCC files to PCF files
Added a native 48 pixel icon version to make the icons look nicer on Windows 7

11/November - RC 7

Fixed the stateful compare routines, they always reported there where changes for the message box even if there where no changes
Enhanced the SDI window to remember the width of the tree between sessions
Fixed the SDI title bar if the same 2 files where compared the filename was not shown
Tweaked the hide summary on the Text Compare it was 2 pixels too short when the text area was maximized
Fixed the toolbar handler, it was not striping ellipsis out of the tool tips
Changed the SDI Viewer to automatically navigate to the first change or the first child if there are no changes
Changed the MDI Detailed Compare to automatically navigate to the first change or the first child if there are no changes

09/November - RC 6

Fixed a bug in the previous change button navigation on the detailed compare if the last line was a change it would crash
Fixed a bug in the change tree filter, if the current node is under the last node it would give an error
Fixed the check box setting for Warn If Files Identical in the preferences/options, it was not being set
Fixed a bug, the SDI window mode was not remembering the location of the SDI window between sessions
Fixed the SDI window, it was not showing the warning for identical files
Fixed the Detailed File Compare, it was not showing the warning for identical files

07/November - RC 5

Fixed a bug in the favourite Folders, if the folder contained a pbl or a sub folder they did not work, the Fav folders in the tree now jump the user to the correct folder in the tree
Added a Save menu option to the File Selection sheet
Fixed a the Save As menu option, it was not resetting the changed flag for the sheet
Changed the Detailed Compare to automatically set focus to the text compare controls when you mouse over. This makes the scroll wheel work without clicking into the control

05/November - RC 4

Fixed a bug in the PB Object parsing which caused older version of PB objects to not parse properties correctly
Fixed the Visit PBDR.com menu item
Tweaked the main program error handler
Added the old/new file paths to the SDI title bar
Added the old/new file paths to the detailed compare titlebar
Added a new report to the File Summary Window to be based on the current filter settings
Allow multiple rows to be highlighted in the File Compare Summary and sub sequently fire multiple Detailed File Compares
Fixed a large memory leak in File Compare, the sheet was not being freed and after performing a lot of compare the program would crash with an out of memory error
Fixed a couple of small memory leaks in the File Summary Compare
Switched off the auto-highlighting of the Old Text in the Line Compare
Fixed a memory leak if multiple File Selection windows where opened
Fixed a bug in the Datawindow Detailed Compare, if the normalise values where on it sometimes did not report changes
Fixed a bug in the Detailed Compare, the summary icon on the tree indicated a change when the script was compared using Ignore White space and the only difference was white space
Fixed a bug in the object parser, if a blank line was added to the start of a source file it did not parse
Fixed the border on the line compare Old Text box
Fixed a bug in the object parser, event definition names where not parsed correctly is there where empty arguments
Enhanced the Goto Folder menu option in File Selection to work with; Files, PB Libraries and PB Objects in PB Libraries
Fixed a bug in the Goto Last/Previous, if the last change was on the last line it only found the second to last change

22/October - RC 3

Added a summary set of totals to the Change Summary Reports
Fixed a bug in the Change Summary report, the Changed Colour coding was not working
Fixed a bug in the Compare Summary, the max count for the progress bar did not take into account the number of objects in pbls so sometimes the bar was full when objects where still being compared
Added Icons for Merge Files and Merge to Clipboard to the SDI UI
Added the Help popups for first usage and for version updates
Fixed a bug in the Target Processing if a target file did not exist it threw an exception
Fixed a bug in the Workspace/Target processing where the code expected all files to be on the same drive
Added a filter toolbar option to the File Compare Summary to allow the results to be filtered
Fixed a bug in File Selection, if you canceled the close with changes in the file list the toolbar would disappear
Corrected a number of typo's and spelling mistakes in the help file

18/October - RC 2

Fixed the SiteCode licensing
Fixed the Registration Code Checking, apologies to those people who have already upgraded and have their new codes!
Changed the file compare to always use file extensions when comparing files
Changed the main form to restore the window position and size when the application is close in normal mode
Changed the File Compare Results to show more intuitive counts
Fixed a bug in the stateless xml compare when trying to align XAML style elements
Fixed a bug where PB Objects in PBL's compare to Source *.sr* files where treated as 2 separate files and not compared
Fixed the order of the VCR Button on the File Compare Summary to match the main Compare Window
I did some performance Testing on CC vs PBDelta and on average CC is 4-5 times faster at comparing large file lists than PBDelta
Fixed the little hide/show icon summary on the File Compare, it was out of alignment 1 pixel
Fixed the options Dialog, it was showing up in the Task Bar as a separate application
Added the Help File and linked up the Main Menu to the help File Sections
Changed the switch processing so a fall through of invalid switch gets the default parser (needed by SDI)
Added the CodeCompare SDI Window, this can be fired from the command line only and acts as a much quicker way of doing a compare when integrated to a source repository
Added 3 extra switches to the command line to support the SDI mode

30/September RC 1

Fixed a bug in the datawindow parser which did not allow for attributes to not have whitespace separating them
Fixed a bug in the datawindow compare where uneven item lists caused a crash
Implemented a Change position/count display for the Text Compare results
Implemented a Change position/count display for the Tree Navigation results of the detailed compare
Added support to the FileSelection sheet to allow files to be drag/dropped from Windows Explorer
Fixed a bug in the object compare, the auto sync of events and properties did not use the bounding control
XAML Files are now treated as known compare types and are fully compared with the XML parser
XAML files now receive colour coding and full xml pretty printing for the compare
Fixed a bug in the File Compare Summary if a New or Old file was compare it generated an exception when it should have gracefully prevented the compare
Fixed a bug in the Object Parser, empty instance/shared variables sometimes where picked up as negative contents
Added a Crumb Trail to the file selection window, you can now navigate using the crumb bar as well as the tree
Changed the Target display names under workspaces to be a relative path, they are now more useful and display better in the crumb bar
Added the Exception type to the error logging
Fixed a bug in the File Selection, accessing a protected folder caused an unhandled exception
Fixed a bug in the File Selection, if a drive was no longer available is caused an exception

14/September - BETA 4

Changed the File Selection window to detect if there are only 2 files (even if the names are different) and automatically compare the files
Changed the File Compare to automatically open any parent tree node with changes child nodes
Fixed the File Compare tree so that changing the selected item with the keyboard now changes the compare text
Fixed a bug in the File Selection window if you dragged a PB12 DotNet Target the name was missing in the drop target
Added syntax colour coding to the DataWindow Compare
Fixed the highlighted item summary on the text compare, sometimes the display was blank (eg interfaces)
Added a vertical scroll bar to the error dialog
Root node of the File Selection tree now displays the file type icon
Fixed a bug in the DataWindow compare, if there where multiple xml template definitions the attribute name was the same and they compared incorrectly
Sorted the PowerBuilder library object listings by object name
Fixed a bug if you had an empty selection list, you where warned but the results window opened blank
Fixed a bug in the object parser if the definition of a structure was less than 7 characters it was not parsed
Added sorting to the File Selection Listview column headers
Put up an hour glass on the File Selection window while it is populating the file list
Took the file extension off the file compare name matching to allow exported objects to match objects inside pbl files
Changed the Control Properties to be sorted by name to make the results more accurate
Fixed a bug in the Modified Line Colour highlighting causing a crash

10/September - BETA 3

Fixed a bug in the datawindow parser which caused an exception if there where empty types at the end of the DW
Fixed a bug in the object parser not handling whitespace in forward definitions
Fixed a bug, proxy objects cannot be accessed from .pbl files so should not be included in pbl listings
Added extra logic to the text line compare to deal with case changes
Added the Horizontal Text Diff auto sync scrolling
Fixed a bug in File Selection, you could drag duplicate pbl entries from the File System and Target tree nodes
Added a default icon for .ico files as the API was loading the first .ico file and using that across all .ico files
Fixed the drag and drop of whole targets in the File Selection Window
Fixed a bug in the start up when the nag window is opened before the main window

25/August - BETA 2

Save Icon was enabled on opening the report viewer with an empty report
Un merging a modified line did not restore the background color
Changed the control match to be lower cased
Added support for Proxy Objects
Fixed the auto detection of objects with a mixture of line endings (\r\n \n) (eg proxy objects)
Changed the folder where error logs are written too to be under the user settings folder

22/August - BETA 1d

Changed to use x86 for the install to see if it fixes crystal reports on 64 bit

17/August - BETA 1c

Crystal Reports Installer now included, the file is now bloated to 32Megs.. my program represents 10.5% of the installer size!! But I guess such is life when you stand on the shoulders of giants?

13/August - BETA 1b

Fixes an annoying auto build bug!

12/August - BETA 1

First release of product.