Weekly development report 2023-07-22

Welcome to the weekly development report or what was done in my Open Source projects in the last week.

Steam Sky

Roguelike in a sky with steampunk theme (written in Ada)

Another week passed, time for the second report from the "All Quiet on the Western Front" series. The half of time to the next big release passed again on testing the game, fixing bugs, and probably bringing new ones by updating the game's code. :) With that amount of founded bugs, I wonder how much will be left in the "stable" version.

Fixed resetting the selected items' type on the trading screen after buying or selling something.
The game stopped hanging during creating a new game when there are no big bases around.
Fixed saving the player's career to the file.
Also, some fixes for new bugs implemented in the previous week. ;)
Again, some code was moved to Nim. Except for the new bugs, the effect is smaller size of the game. Not too much, but always.
And of course, the fun with cleaning the old code continues.

Nimalyzer

The static code analyzer for Nim programming language

The work on polishing the programs continues. This week spent mostly on updating the code of the program's rules. But there are also some breaking changes. :) Plus a new setting for the program.

Added ability to set options for ifStatements rule. That's the breaking change mentioned above. Now the rule requires at least one option to be set, but it can check all or only the selected things in the if statements.
Added pragmas to code generated by macros in the program's rules. Mostly for procedures ruleFix and ruleCheck.
Of course it detected some uncaught exceptions in the code. Now all should be caught. At least I think so. :)
Added some colors to the program's console's output. Yes, it is 2023 so, it is good to have some colors here. It added one new, small dependency to the project.
Added ability to set the maximum amount of the program's reports. By the reports I mean, how many violations of check or fix types of rules the program found plus all results of search type of rules. It can help especially with large codebases where on first runs can be hundreds reports.
Some changes to the project's documentation are made too. Mostly related to the changes mentioned above.

Wine cellar

A graphical user interface for managing Windows programs on FreeBSD

The work on the installing a new Windows application is finished for now. At least looks so. :) I started to converting the whole process to use threads, so the GUI will not be blocked during background tasks, like download, installing dependencies, etc. The hardest part was to find the proper way to implement it, but I think I have something. :) Also, the installer creating now starting script for the application and the configuration file for the program.