DIContainers: Version History

• Support Delphi 13 Florence Win32 and Win64.
• Update DIUtils.pas Unicode functions to Unicode 17.0.0.

• Support Delphi 12 Athens Win32 and Win64.

• Support Delphi 11 Alexandria Win32 and Win64.

• Support Delphi 10.4 Sydney Win32 and Win64.

Delphi compilers with support for the inline directive (starting with Delphi 2005) failed to compile DIContainers *.bpl packages for the Demo and Commercial editions. They generated a “[dcc32 Fatal Error] DIUtils: F2051 Unit DIContainers was compiled with a different version of DIUtils.StrSameIW”. Regular *.exe applications compiled without problems. The DIContainers Source Code also compiled to both *.bpl packages and *.exe applications with no problems.

• Enlarge container capacity to NativeInt.
• Improve DIUtils.pas Unicode processing to support Unicode Code Points from $000000 to $10FFFF. Adjust remaining source code accordingly.
• Update DIUtils.pas Unicode functions to Unicode 12.1.0.
• Remove DI.inc include file. Directly link in DICompilers.inc instead.
• Remove support for the DI_No_Classes compiler directive.
• Rename DI_No_Range_Checking compiler directive to DIC_Unsafe.
• Fix TDIStringTree element type from AnsiString to just String.
• Fix an “index out of bounds” error when deleting a node with children in the DIContainers_AddressBook demo.
• Work around some compiler warnings and remove {$WARNINGS OFF} directives, which suppressed them.

• Support Delphi 10.3 Rio Win32 and Win64.

• Support Delphi 10.2 Tokyo Win32 and Win64.

• Support Delphi 10.1 Berlin Win32 and Win64.

• Support Delphi 10 Seattle Win32 and Win64.

• Add support for Delphi XE8 Win32 and Win64.

• Support Delphi XE7 Win32 and Win64.
• New TDIInterfaceVector with NewDIInterfaceVector and NewDIInterfaceOwnerVector constructor functions (Delphi 6 and later only).
• Fix multi-thread problem with TDIItemHandler and TDIKeyHandler reference counting.
• Minor fixes and improvements.
• Improved documentation shows inherited class members.

• Support Delphi XE6 Win32 and Win64.

• New NativeInt and NativeUInt containers:
  • TDINativeIntList, TDINativeIntTree, TDINativeIntVector.
  • TDINativeUIntList, TDINativeUIntTree, TDINativeUIntVector.
  • TDIUnicodeString2NativeUIntVector.

• Support Delphi XE5 Win32 and Win64.

• Support Delphi XE4 Win32 and Win64.
• Fix: Containers created with GetDIUnicodeStringObjectOwnerItemHandler did not free objects.

• Compatibility update with other Yunqa products.

• Support Delphi XE3 Win32 and Win64.

• Support Delphi XE2 Win64.
• Fix AV when sorting empty TDIVector.

• Support Delphi XE2 Win32 (binary editions) and Win64 (source code edition only right now).

• Add TDIInteger3Vector.
• Library source code compiles with FreePascal (Win32).

• Delphi XE support.

• New TDIHash high-performance methods:
  • TDIHash.DeleteByKeyNoPack
  • TDIHash.DeleteByKeyNoFreeNoPack
  • TDIHash.PItemOfKeyBufOrInsert
• Correct some minor documentation glitches.

• New TDIStringList.
• New TDIString2List.
• New TDIStringTree.
• Improved and easier to navigate documentation.

• New TDIStringVector.
• New TDIStringCardinalVector.
• New TDIString2Vector.
• New TDIString2CardinalVector.
• New TDIStringHash.
• Fix bugs with WideString / UnicodeString comparisons in FindValueCS / FindValueCI (i.e. for TDIVector containers).
• Additions and bug fixes to DIUtils.pas.

• Delphi 2010 support.
• Implement UnicodeString / WideString versions for TDIUnicodeStringVector.LoadNamesFromTextFile and TDIUnicodeString2Vector.LoadValuesFromTextFile, as well as for their respective TDIVector and TDIList classe descendants.
• Add the missing TDIObjectHash.ObjectAt property.

• Work around an unexpected Delphi 2009 automatic numeric AnsiChar Unicode conversion in DIUtils.pas which caused an error when compiled on a Windows OS set to a non-European (Asian, Cyrillic, etc.) codepage.

• Delphi 2009 support. In older Delphi versions, UnicodeString automatically falls back to WideString.
• New UnicodeString containers:
  • TDIUnicodeStringHash, TDIUnicodeStringList, TDIUnicodeStringTree, TDIUnicodeStringVector.
  • TDIUnicodeStringCardinalList, TDIUnicodeStringCardinalTree, TDIUnicodeStringCardinalVector.
  • TDIUnicodeStringIntegerList, TDIUnicodeStringIntegerTree, TDIUnicodeStringIntegerVector.
  • TDIUnicodeStringObjectList + DIUnicodeStringObjectOwnerList, TDIUnicodeStringObjectTree + DIUnicodeStringObjectTree, TDIUnicodeStringObjectVector + DIUnicodeStringObjectOwnerVector.
  • TDIUnicodeStringPointerList + DIUnicodeStringPointerOwnerList, TDIUnicodeStringPointerTree + DIUnicodeStringPointerTree, TDIUnicodeStringPointerVector + DIUnicodeStringPointerOwnerVector.
  • TDIUnicodeString2List, TDIUnicodeString2Tree, TDIUnicodeString2Vector.
  • TDIUnicodeString2CardinalList, TDIUnicodeString2CardinalTree, TDIUnicodeString2CardinalVector,
• New UnicodeString item handler units:
  • DIUnicodeStringItemHandler.
  • DIUnicodeStringCardinalItemHandler.
  • DIUnicodeStringIntegerItemHandler.
  • DIUnicodeStringObjectItemHandler + DIUnicodeStringObjectOwnerItemHandler.
  • DIUnicodeStringPointerItemHandler + DIUnicodeStringPointerOwnerItemHandler.
  • DIUnicodeString2ItemHandler.
  • DIUnicodeString2CardinalItemHandler.
• New UnicodeString key handler units:
  • DIUnicodeStringCIKeyHandler, DIUnicodeStringCSKeyHandler.

• New containers:
  • TDIWideStringPointerList, DIWideStringPointerOwnerList.
  • TDIWideStringPointerTree, DIWideStringPointerTree.
  • TDIWideStringPointerVector, DIWideStringPointerOwnerVector.
• New item handler units:
  • DIWideStringPointerItemHandler, DIWideStringPointerOwnerItemHandler.
• Improve compatibility for parallel installation with other DI packages.

• Replace incorrectly compiled HTML Help file with working version.
• Remove non-interfaced functions from DIContainers implementation section. They caused some Delphi versions to issue irritating hints when DIContainers was compiled into a package.

• Delphi 2007 support.
• Add XP Themes to Demo projects.

• Added support for Delphi 2006 Win32.
• Added the the functions MaxNumber and MinNumber the the Number list and vector containers.
• Fixed a bug where TDIHash.Clear did not reset an internal variable which could result in an access violation when adding new items.

• Added Delphi 3 compatibility to the utility units.
• Resolved dependency issues when DIContainers is used in parallel with other DI products.

• Fixed a small packaging bug in the Demo edition which unfortunately slipped into the last update. Commercial and Source code editions do not require this update.

• Compatibility with other DI products.

• Added support for Delphi 2005 Win32.
• Added support for the new Delphi 2005 for Item in Container do iterator syntax.
• Multiple speed optimizations:
  • Reduced number of arguments to most of the TDIItemHandler's methods.
  • Faster hash functions for strings and character data.
  • Other, internal speed optimizations.
• Multiple interface simplifications:
  • Moved some commonly used methods to the TDIContainer level, now declared as virtual and overridden in descendant classes.
  • Changed some readonly container access properties to functions.
  • Removed some rarely used arguments from indexed item access properties.
  • Added overloaded versions of many low level methods to provide both simple and advanced item access.
  • Container iterator callbacks now reference a method of an instance object instead of a simple function.
• Bug fixes.