v2.3.0

Released 2025-09-13

n specification:
* Added snippet properties to enable recording of compilation results with Delphi 13 (issue 62).
* Deprecated compiler results with value W (issue 63).

• Changes were made to the Structures category:
  • Added a new TIntegerRange advanced record (issue 56).
  • Fixed an error in the description of the Range snippet.
  • Added a warning to the TRangeEx advanced record to note potentially buggy behaviour if the range lower bound is greater than the upper bound.
• Added new RandomString routine to the String Management category (issue 28).
• Added results of compiling every snippet with Delphi 13 (issue 60).
• Fixed bug that was preventing the Softmax routine in the Mathematics category from compiling due to a missing unit declaration (issue 61).
• Changes to unit tests:
  • Added a new DUnit test project for the Structures category and added it to the CodeSnippetsTestsXE project group. Unit tests for all snippets in the Structures category were created (issue 58).
  • Added further unit tests for all snippets in the Arrays category that did not already have them (issue 38).
  • Added unit tests for the new RandomString routine.
• Documentation:
  • Updated tests/README.md re the unit test changes in this release and other minor revisions.
  • Fixed typo in README.md.

v2.2.3

Released 2025-04-03

• Added results of compiling with Delphi 12 for all snippets with no pre-existing compile results for that compiler (issue #27).
• Fixed memory leak in the CountOccurences function (issue #54).
• Updated GetGIFSize function to work around a deprecated warning with Delphi 12 and some earlier compilers because of a call to SysUtils.StrLComp which has been moved to the AnsiStrings unit (issue #52).

v2.2.2

Released 2025-01-19

• New snippets were added to the Arrays and Mathematics categories:
  • Arrays category:
    • Reverse<T> method of TArrayUtils & ReverseByteArray function (issue #37).
    • Max<T>, Min<T> & MinMax<T> methods of TArrayUtils (issue #8).
  • Mathematics category:
    • 3 overloaded versions of each of the ArithmeticMean & WeightedArithmeticMean functions (issue #30).
    • DigitSumBase, DigitCountBase & DigitsOf function (issue #17).
    • DigitPowerSum function (issue #39).
    • IsPalindromic function (issue #19).
    • IsNarcissistic function (issue #18).
    • LSE & Softmax functions (issue 34).
    • 3 overloaded versions of a Median function (issue #41).
    • 2 overloaded versions of each of the MinMaxOfArray, RescaleRange, NormaliseByWeight & RangeOf functions (issue #44).
    • 3 overloaded versions of each of the GeometricMean and WeightedGeometricMean functions (issue #31).
    • 3 overloaded versions of each of the SumOfReciprocals and HarmonicMean functions (issue #35).
    • 3 overloaded versions of a WeightedHarmonicMean function (issue #47).
    • LogarithmicMean function (issue #32).
    • 3 overloaded versions of the PowerMean and WeightedPowerMean functions (issue #33).
    • Mode, ModeAlt, ModeCount, HasMode & CountOccurences functions (issue #42).
    • 2 overloaded versions of a RMS function (issue #49).
    • 2 overloaded versions of a TSS (total sum of squares) function (issue #51).
• Updates to snippets in the Mathematics category:
  • Overflow checking was added to the PowNZN.
  • Fixed bug in all overloads of the SumOfLogs routine that was causing access violations whenever an exception was to be raised (issue #46).
• Changes to tests:
  • Added unit tests for all the routines and methods that were added to the Arrays and Mathematics categories in this release.
  • Added unit test for the pre-existing ByteArraysEqual function in the Arrays category.
  • Modified unit test for PowNZN to check for new EOverflow exception raised when an overflow condition is detected.
  • Removed conditional compilation directives from the array unit test unit.
• Updated README.md to note that there are now over 700 snippets in the collection.
• Updated all copyright dates for 2025.

v2.2.1

Released 2024-12-02

• Fixed invalid and corrupted values in some AdvancedTest.URL and AdvancedTest.Level keys in data.ini, hex.ini and maths.ini. Fixes issue #29.

v2.2.0

Released 2024-10-15

• Updated collection specification:
  • Added snippet properties to enable recording of compilation results with Delphi 10.2 through to Delphi 12. Fixes issue #26.
  • Added new AdvancedTest.Level and AdvancedTest.URL snippet properties to provide additional information for snippets that have received advanced testing. See issues #13 & #15.
• Changes to the collection:
  • Added 3 new IEEE Pown functions to the Maths category: PowN, PowNZN, PowNZZ. Fixes issue #20.
  • Added 7 overloaded version of each of two new summing functions in the Maths category: ArraySum & SumOfLogs. Fixes issue #25.
  • Added AdvancedTest.Level values to numerous snippets that have received advanced testing to provide details of the type of testing. See issue #15.
  • Added AdvancedTest.URLvalues to to numerous snippets that have received advanced testing to provide links to the test source code. See issue #13
  • Corrected RFC1123DateGMT snippet test level from advanced to basic.
  • Fixed syntax errors in maths.ini & hex.ini category files.
• Changes to tests:
  • Comments corrected and updated in the test projects for the drive and winsys categories.
  • Pascal files in test projects that were generated from the collection had header comments changed to refer to the revised LICENSE.md.
  • Added unit tests for the PowN, PowNZN, PowNZZ routines and the ArraySum & SumOfLogs overloaded functions the to maths category test project.
• Restructured source code repository. All files and sub-directories that were in the csdb directory were moved up one directory level and csdb was deleted. Fixes issue #14.
• Updated documentation:
  • README.md in the repo root was heavily edited to include information formerly in csdb/README.md, which was deleted.
  • tests/README.md was changed to reflect the changed repo directory structure and footnotes were converted to GitHub style.
  • LICENSE.md was changed to reflect the different copyright details that apply to the files belong to the collection and other files.
  • Collection documentation updated as follows:
    • Noted changes to the collection specification made in this releases.
    • General editing
    • Revised styling
    • Added a new section discussing some issues that may be encountered when designing software to that reads the database.
  • Fixed a CSS error in docs/main.css.
  • Rewrote REML documentation to link to become a brief overview that links to an authoratitive definition of REML in the delphidabbler/reml repository. Fixes issue #24.

v2.1.2

Released 2023-07-15

• Fixed simple errors and oversights in documentation. Fixes issues #9 & #10.

Other than to update the VERSION file there were no changes to any snippets or associated meta-data in this release.

v2.1.1 (HOTFIX)

Released 2021-12-29

• Fixed malformed REML tags. Fixes issue #7.

v2.1.0

Released 2021-12-26

• Deprecated Desc, Comments, Credits & Credits_URL keys in Code Snippets Database collection and changed DescEx key to be required. Made following changes to .ini files as a consequence:
  • Changed all Desc keys to DescEx keys and removed all Desc keys as a result.
  • Converted content of all Comments, Credits & Credits_URL keys to Extra key values and removed the deprecated keys.
• Made all DescEx and Extra values fully REML v4 compliant by ensuring all content is wrapped in <p>..</p> tags.
• Fixed errors in .ini files. Fixes issue #6.
• Updated a small number of snippet descriptions and extra information.
• Updated documentation in collection-format.html and reml.html to reflect the above changes.

v2.0.1

Released 2021-10-12

• Add new unit tests and demo code for some snippets from the database. All such code was added to a new tests directory. See tests/README.md for details.
• Fix minor errors in documentation.

Other than to update the VERSION file there were no changes to any snippets or associated meta-data in this release.

Released in three separate files (see below):

• csdb-v2.0.1-data.zip - the snippets collection - contains all the files needed to use the "database".
• csdb-v2.0.1-docs.zip - documentation.
• csdb-v2.0.1-tests.zip - unit tests and demo code.

v2.0.0

Released 2020-05-02

Initial release of v2 of the collection.

Changes since last v1 release

• Removed any code that restricted use of the collection to DelphiDabbler CodeSnip. The collection can now be used by 3rd party applications.
  • Removed backwards compatibility with CodeSnip v4.15.1 and earlier.
  • Removed conditionally included code and CodeSnip version dependent code from category .ini files.
  • Merged multiple versions of category .ini files down into a single file. (These multiple file were used to hide some categories from earlier versions of CodeSnip).
  • Removed duplicated, CodeSnip version dependent, source code files: used a copy of the most recent version and removed version specifiers from the file names.
• Rationalised and corrected errors in category .ini files:
  • Condensed two string management categories into one.
  • Removed Desc keys where they duplicated DescEx keys.
  • Removed some duplicate Credits and Comments keys.
  • Removed some empty keys.
  • Fixed or removed some broken web links.
  • Rephrased some descriptive text.
• Changed layout of category .ini files and categories.ini:
  • Re-ordered sections of categories.ini in alphabetic order.
  • Removed all explanatory comments: there were inconsistencies.
  • Added header comments, including copyright and licensing information, to all .ini files.
• File format changes:
  • Removed the StandardFormat key from the specification of category .ini files.
  • Added requirements for LICENSE, LICENSE_INFO and VERSION files and added suitable files to the collection.
  • Changed the required name for the contributors and testers files to CONTRIBUTORS and TESTERS respectively. Renamed the existing contrib.txt and testers.txt files accordingly.
  • Made support for REML v4 an official requirement.
  • Dropped support for conditional inclusion of code in .ini files.
• Added documentation:
  • Of the collection file format.
  • A read-me file.
  • This change log.
• Ensured that all files in the collection use the UTF-8 text file preamble (aka byte order mark).
• Added a shell script to create releases.
• Officially adopted the MIT license for source code files.