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- Known bugs and limitations in Project Analyzer 4.0
-
- Please report any new bugs to vbshop@aivosto.com.
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- Limitations
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- - The size of variable, constant and procedure names is restricted to 64
- characters to save some memory. Longer names are truncated.
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- Known misbehaviour
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- - Long lines don't word wrap on some report types
- - Long procedural call tree reports (All procedures) can hang the computer
-
- - MyClass.MyProperty = 987 works OK (MyProperty Let), but
- MyClass(123).MyProperty = 987 doesn't (thinks it's MyProperty Get)
- Problem with subscript.
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- - In the hypertext window, letters in DefType statements may be
- mistaken for one-letter variable names
- - In the hypertext window, if you have two different definitions with the
- same name (e.g. Form1.MyVar and Form2.MyVar), the program may
- highlight the both in red when only the other one should be highlighted
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- Deficiencies in VB 3.0 features
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-
- - The Summary report shows somewhat distorted figures for
- 1. Global Name Table: Type definitions and DLLs declarations are
- not calculated correctly.
- 2. Global Symbol Table: type definitions are excluded, and everything
- else is assumed to take 10 bytes of memory.
- Use freeware VB Space (by Gregg Irwin) for more exact calculations
- - Can't analyze files saved as binary. Save as text instead.
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- Unsupported VB 4.0/5.0 features
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- - Compiler directives (#if xyz then)
- - Line continuation character "_"
-
- - Late-bound references. Example:
- Forms(2).DoSomething
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- Project Analyzer can't know which form the call goes to, because
- Forms(2) may be of any of your forms. This applies to all object
- references that are of a general type (e.g. As Form, As Object)
- and not a specific type (As MyForm, As MyObject).
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- Unsupported VB 5.0 features
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- - Controls on UserForms (.dsr/.dsx files)
- - Project Group Files (.vbg)
- - Inherits statement (polymorphism) supported partially. A procedure that
- implements an interface procedure is dead only if the procedure it
- implements is also dead. That's because polymorphed calls are bound
- finally at run-time.
- - If a class is supposed to be used outside the project, its members
- may be "dead". This is a problem e.g. with ActiveX EXE/DLL projects.
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- Deficiencies in FRX view
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-
- - Supports the most usual data types and controls, like PictureBox.Picture,
- ListBox.List, ListBox.ItemData, TextBox.Text, MouseIcon etc.
- - Some properties that are not supported (others exist):
- AniButton.Picture, SSCommand.Picture
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- Help Compiler Warnings
- ======================
- You can ignore the following warning in HCW.EXE:
- HC2002: Note:
- The keywords "xyz" and "Xyz" are identical except for case.
- Help Workshop has modified one keyword to match the other.
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- For best results
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-
- - Always declare your local variables (use Option Explicit)
- - Always save your files as text (VB 3.0)
- - Use MS Word as RTF editor
- - Wait for the analysis to end completely (it has 2 phases)
- - VB 5.0: Project Analyzer is at its best analyzing Standard EXE
- projects. You can of course analyze ActiveX projects too, but
- public classes, for example, may have "dead" members that aren't
- dead in reality (because they are used outside the project)
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